Feminine
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chance

Meaning

  1. (feminine) chance
  2. (feminine) luck

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃɑ̃s/
Etymology

In summary

From Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”). Doublet of cadence, a borrowing from Italian.

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