Past tense of guess
regular verb
The past tense of guess is guessed. The past participle is also guessed.
Forms of guess
| Base form (V1) | guess /ɡɛs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | guessed /ɡɛst/ |
| Past participle (V3) | guessed /ɡɛst/ |
| Present participle | guessing /ˈɡɛsɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | guesses /ˈɡɛsɪz/ |
Guessed in a sentence
- She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.
- You guessed the right answer!
- I tried not to let on that I had already guessed the answer.From the entry let on
- They easily guessed his weak computer password.From the entry weak
- He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.From the entry musta
Meaning of guess
- verb To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- verb To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- verb To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
Questions about the past tense of guess
- What is the past tense of guess?
- The past tense of guess is guessed.
- What is the past participle of guess?
- The past participle of guess is guessed.
- Is guess a regular or irregular verb?
- Guess is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: guess (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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