Scrabble & Words with friends points
- chance is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 13
- chance is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 13
- chance is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15
Definition of chance
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances (noun)
Examples
- now is your chance
Synonyms
- opportunity
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with (verb)
Examples
- She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
Synonyms
- bump
- encounter
- find
- happen
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance (adjective)
Examples
- a chance occurrence
Synonyms
- casual
- the possibility of future success (noun)
Synonyms
- prospect
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome (verb)
Synonyms
- adventure
- gamble
- hazard
- risk
- run a risk
- take a chance
- take chances
- 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 (noun)
Examples
- if that phone call is for me, chances are it's my wife
Synonyms
- probability
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another (noun)
Examples
- we ran into each other by pure chance
Synonyms
- fortune
- hazard
- luck
- a risk involving danger (noun)
Examples
- you take a chance when you let her drive
- be the case by chance (verb)
Examples
- I chanced to meet my old friend in the street
See definition of chance in Merriam Webster