chance.

1. Events occurring without deliberate arrangement or an apparent planned cause.

2. The possibility that something will happen or be true.

3. An occasion that allows someone to act or obtain something.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• by chance
• leave to chance

On the page

They met by chance outside the archive.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.