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who would have guessed

who would have guessed is the alternative form of who would have thought it.

Meaning of who would have thought it

Phrase

who would have thought it?

  1. A rhetorical question used to express incredulity or surprise: who would have guessed it?; who would have thought that would happen?
    • I'm surprised you didn't like the movie, who'd've thought it? I'd've thought it was just your kind of thing.

Questions about who would have guessed

What is who would have guessed the alternative form of?
Who would have guessed is the alternative form of who would have thought it.

Words near who would have guessed in the dictionary

  1. who took the jam out of your doughnut
  2. who wants to know
  3. who was your servant last year
  4. who watches the watchers
  5. who whom
  6. who would have guessed
  7. who would have known
  8. who would have thought it
  9. who would have thunk it
  10. who would've thunk it
  11. who woulda thunk it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: who would have guessed (page history and authors); who would have thought it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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