sporting chance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fairly reasonable chance of success.
Example Sentences
- "You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!"
- "Whether there was some old solemn feud between those railways, or whether both had united to grant a sporting chance to other means of conveyance, the fact remained that no matter how you juggled with timetables, a three-hour wait at Albany between trains was the briefest you could hope to achieve."
- "Professional hunters and trackers die too, in the pursuit of dangerous animals every year. Stones and his client voice reverence for what they call “fair chase”: an ethical distinction observed in certain sporting circles in which the quarry is felt to have a sporting chance of survival."