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CHANCE
Definition of CHANCE
noun
An opportunity or possibility.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,444)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHANCE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CHANCE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACCEHN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CHANCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHANCE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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