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Is chance a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chance is a Scrabble US word. The word chance is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is chance a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chance is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CHANCE,

5-letter words (5 found)

CACHE,CANEH,CHACE,HANCE,NACHE,

4-letter words (8 found)

ACHE,ACNE,ANCE,CANE,CECA,EACH,HAEN,NACH,

3-letter words (13 found)

ACE,ACH,ANE,CAN,CHA,CHE,EAN,ECH,HAE,HAN,HEN,NAE,NAH,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AH,AN,CH,EA,EH,EN,HA,HE,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from chance according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chance

chance

Alternative forms

  • chaunce (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæns/
    • (US, Canada) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɛəns], [t͡ʃʰeəns]
    • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰæns], [t͡ʃʰans]
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰæːns]
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑːns/
    • (Received Pronunciation, Cockney) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɑːns]
    • (Cultivated Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäːns], [t͡ʃʰɐːns]
    • (Indian English) IPA(key): [t͡ʃɑːns]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)

  1. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
  2. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
  3. (countable) The probability of something happening.
  4. (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
  5. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
Synonyms
  • (random occurrence): fortune, hap; see also Thesaurus:luck
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: チャンス
Translations

Adjective

chance (not comparable)

  1. Happening by chance, casual.
Translations

Adverb

chance (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
  3. To try or risk.
  4. To discover something by chance.
  5. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
  6. (Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
Synonyms
  • (to happen) come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
  • (to happen to)
  • (to try) test
  • (to discover something) come across, come on, come upon, encounter, stumble upon
  • (to cheat someone) deceive, fool, trick; See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
  • bechance
  • chance on
  • chance one's arm
  • chance upon
Translations

References

  • “chance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “chance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Canche

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadō (“I fall, I die”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈɕɑŋsə]

Noun

chance c (singular definite chancen, plural indefinite chancer)

  1. A chance

Antonyms

  • risiko

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɑ̃s/
  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

chance f (plural chances)

  1. chance
  2. luck

Antonyms

  • adversité
  • guigne (familiar)
  • malchance
  • malheur

Derived terms

Related terms

  • choir

Descendants

Further reading

  • “chance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • scians

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadenza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈʃans/
  • Rhymes: -ans

Noun

chance f (invariable)

  1. chance (possibility of a certain outcome)

Middle English

Noun

chance

  1. Alternative form of chaunce

Old French

Noun

chance oblique singular, f (oblique plural chances, nominative singular chance, nominative plural chances)

  1. Alternative form of cheance

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: chan‧ce

Noun

chance f (plural chances)

  1. probability
  2. chance, opportunity
    Synonym: oportunidade

References

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance or, in Mexico, from English chance. Doublet of cadencia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈt͡ʃanθe/ [ˈt͡ʃãn̟.θe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃanse/ [ˈt͡ʃãn.se]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -anθe
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -anse
  • Syllabification: chan‧ce

Noun

chance m or f same meaning (plural chances)

  1. chance

Conjunction

chance

  1. (Mexico) maybe, perchance, perhaps or possibly
    Synonyms: a lo mejor, quizá, quizás, tal vez

Further reading

  • “chance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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