chance

Meaning

Noun

1. An opportunity or possibility.
2. Random occurrence; luck.
3. The probability of something happening.
4. probability; possibility.
5. What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Adj

Happening by chance, casual.

Adv

Perchance; perhaps.

Verb

1. To happen by chance, to occur.
2. To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.
4. To discover something by chance.
5. To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
6. To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.

Synonyms

opportunity

luck

🍀

occasion

fortune

accident

hazard

accidental

fate

possibility

random

probability

casual

fortuity

risk

coincidence

happen

fortuitous

destiny

incident

event

opening

occurrence

odds

accidence

prospect

adventitious

occurence

lot

adventure

contingent

gamble

haphazard

incidental

instance

likelihood

venture

contingency

betide

hap

case

take a chance

cue

fluke

eventuality

favourable circumstance

shot

arise

potential

fortuitousness

favorable circumstance

good opportunity

moment

run a risk

start

take chances

stray

motive

opportune moment

coincidental

come about

circumstance

feasibility

time

⌚

good fortune

excuse

means

unexpectedly

scope

unplanned

peradventure

impetus

hope

hurt

imperil

break

randomicity

innings

jeopardize

jeopardy

joint

lifeline

likeliness

blessing

lottery

meet

meeting

merit

method

beginning

occasional

occur

befall

bed

🛏️

bechance

bargain

at that time

origination

outlook

outset

peril

potency

practical

predestination

prelude

presumption

pretext

privilege

arbitrary

aim

question

❓

act

randomness

right

accidentally

room

sale

scratch

seam

show

smart

sort

space

squeak

stake

suddenly

supervene

supervention

suture

take place

tossup

toss-up

transpire

trouble

turn up

undertaking

unexpected

unintentional

upcast

used

verisimilitude

vraisemblance

chanceful

come forth

come upon

happy chance

look-in

suitable time

raphe

good chance

accidental encounter

chance event

come across

commissure

compromise

conceivability

concurrence

conceivableness

possibleness

co-occurrence

crisis

damaged

deed

circumstantial

die

💀

doom

encounter

endanger

example

expectedness

face

facility

fall

fall out

fall upon

chink

find

🔍

caulking

fortuitously

by luck

freedom

rhaphe

gap

go

go on

handle

pot luck

haply

by chance

happening

happenstance

bump

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃæns/

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.