Synonyms for chance
Another word for chance is casual, unplanned or opportunity. Below are 18 synonyms and 30 related words across 9 senses.
Also searched as: chanced, chances, chancing.
1. adjective: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- casual synonyms
- unplanned synonyms
2. noun: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- opportunity
3. noun: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- luck synonyms
- fortune synonyms
- hazard synonyms
4. noun: a risk involving danger
5. noun: 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
- probability
6. noun: the possibility of future success
- prospect synonyms
7. verb: be the case by chance
8. verb: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- take a chance synonyms
- risk synonyms
- run a risk synonyms
- take chances synonyms
- adventure synonyms
- hazard synonyms
- gamble synonyms
9. verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- find synonyms
- happen synonyms
- encounter synonyms
- bump synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- day synonyms
- say synonyms
- room synonyms
- street
- shot synonyms
- opening synonyms
- throw synonyms
- hearing synonyms
- fresh start
- audience synonyms
- possibility synonyms
- crack synonyms
- occasion synonyms
- hunting ground
- brass ring
- even chance
- bad luck
- phenomenon
- toss-up
- mishap synonyms
- tossup
- mischance
- danger
- peril synonyms
- amount synonyms
- fair chance
- fat chance
- cross section
- measure synonyms
- risk of exposure
Chance in word games
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- 6
- Scrabble
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
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Questions people ask
What is another word for chance?
You can say casual, unplanned, opportunity, luck or fortune instead of chance. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "occurring or appearing or singled out by chance".
What is the opposite of chance?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for chance; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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