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chance.

chance

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃɑ̃s/

  1. chance

    feminine
    Il y a des fortes chances que vos neurones fonctionnent bien

  2. luck

    feminine

  3. Immigrant of non-European heritage, short for "chance pour la France".

    euphemistic · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”). Doublet of cadence, a borrowing from Italian.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.