chance
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#577
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Concours de circonstances jugé malheureux ou heureux quant à son influence sur le succès, la réalisation, la réussite ou l’échec d’une action ou d’un événement ; contexte jugé favorable ou non d’un... Pronounced \ʃɑ̃s\. It ranks #577 in French word frequency. Often confused with chant and crâne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chance is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #577 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chance, with forms such as "cahnce", "cchance", and "chacne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chant", "crâne", "chêne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chance, spelled C-H-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Concours de circonstances jugé malheureux ou heureux quant à son influence sur le succès, la réalisation, la réussite ou l’échec d’une action ou d’un événement ; contexte jugé favorable ou non d’une action.
- 2Probabilités chiffrées d’occurrences d’un événement.
- 3Possibilité subjective estimée de réalisation, de succès, de réussite.
- 4(Une chance) Occasion, contexte éphémère heureux, favorable ; opportunité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahnce,cchance,chacne,chancce,chanec,channce,chhance,chnace,hcance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chance
Misspelling Variants of "chance"
Frequency rank: #577 in French
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