par chance
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
par chance is anFrenchadv. It means: Par un heureux concours de circonstances Pronounced \pɑʁ ʃɑ̃s\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par chance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \pɑʁ ʃɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for par chance is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑʁ ʃɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for par chance in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 par chance, spelled P-A-R- -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
- 1Par un heureux concours de circonstances
- 2Par un heureux hasard.
- 3Heureusement
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