surmise

Other forms of surmise

plural

surmises·

past tense

surmised·

present participle

surmising·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surmise

What does surmise mean?

surmise means "infer from incomplete evidence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surmise?

surmise has 2 syllables: sur-mise. The stress falls on "mise". In IPA it is /sɚˈmaɪz/.

What is another word for surmise?

Close synonyms include suspect, guess, conjecture, supposition, surmisal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surmise a common word?

surmise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surmise?

12 words rhyme with surmise. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.