educated guess

educated guess

English

Noun

educated guess (plural educated guesses)

1. A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.

   His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.

Synonyms

• guesstimate
• hypothesis
• intelligent guess

Translations

guess based on experience or knowledge

Catalan: conjectura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 有根據的推測, 有根据的推测 (yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè) Finnish: valistunut arvaus (fi) French: supposition éclairée f, supposition bien informée f, hypothèse raisonnée, hypothèse raisonnable f, hypothèse bien fondée f, à vue de nez (fr), au pifomètre (fr), estimation éclairée f, jugement approximatif m, approximation (fr) f, spéculation bien informée f, hypothèse éclairée f German: fundierte Vermutung f Hebrew: ניחוש מושכל‎

Italian: ipotesi plausibile f, supposizione plausibile f, ipotesi ragionata f Portuguese: palpite fundamentado m, suposição fundamentada f, hipótese fundamentada f, hipótese plausível f Russian: обосно́ванное предположе́ние n (obosnóvannoje predpoložénije), предположе́ние (ru) n (predpoložénije) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: učeno pogađanje n, učena pretpostavka f Swedish: kvalificerad gissning c