chancy
/ˈtʃænsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.97 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An English surname from Old French.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Example Sentences
- "In winter steam contributes a fairly high proportion of its tractive effort, say 15 per cent, to heating the train. Diesels have at the moment separate oil-fired boilers which are somewhat chancy affairs, and only electric locomotives grab unlimited power for heating which does not affect their punctuality."
- "You might think it's foolish This chancy rendezvous (You might think) You might think I'm crazy (All I want) All I want is you"
- "His haggard gaze swept this way and that, seeking possible succour where reason told him there could be no succour; and then as his vision pieced together this outjutting architectural feature and that into a coherent picture of his immediate surroundings he knew where he was. The one bit of chancy luck in a sequence of direful catastrophes had brought him here[Pg 49] to this very spot. Why, this must be West Ninth Street; it had to be, it was—oh joy, it was!."
Etymology
From chance + -y.