chance
An opportunity or possibility.
Noun 4 meanings
An opportunity or possibility.
“We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.”
Random occurrence; luck.
“Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?”
The probability of something happening.
“There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.”
probability; possibility.
Adjective 1 meaning
Happening by chance, casual.
Verb 4 meanings
To try or risk.
“Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?”
To discover something by chance.
“He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.”
To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
“The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.”
To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
Etymology
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
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CHANCE at a glance
CHANCE has 6 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #520 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with chance
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
- INFLUENCE14
One letter away
- CHANGE12
- CHANCY16
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