How to spell chance

Chance is spelled C-H-A-N-C-E.

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What it means: An opportunity to do something.

In a sentence: I hope I get a chance to pet the cute puppy.

Same family: chances, chancy, by chance, take a chance, chanceful. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Chance” comes from Old French “cheance,” meaning ‘luck’ or ‘occurrence,’ which itself goes back to a Latin word for ‘falling’ or ‘becoming.’ Over time, the idea of something that ‘falls out’ or ‘happens’ turned into our modern sense of a possibility or opportunity.

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Words like this

cheer · chose · chip · chant · cheat · check · cherry · since

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