Definitions For Chance

noun

  • A risk involving danger
  • A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
  • An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
  • The possibility of future success
  • A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
  • An opportunity to do something : an amount of time or a situation in which something can be done
  • The possibility that something will happen
  • The way that events happen when they are not planned or controlled by people

verb

  • Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
  • Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
  • Be the case by chance
  • To accept the danger of (doing something)

adjective

  • Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

Is Chances a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
16

The word Chance is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Chance in a Sentence

  • This is the chance of a lifetime!
  • Everyone deserves a fair chance of winning the award.
  • If you give me a chance, I know I can do a good job.
  • He couldn't chance playing with a broken toe.
  • I don't think we should chance driving in this snowstorm.

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