perchance
/ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?"
- "Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him[…]"
- "“Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are / So lightly, beautifully built: / Perchance I may return with others there / When I have purged my guilt.”"
- "A great black bird, Apollyon's bosom-friend, / Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned / That brushed my cap—perchance the guide I sought."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin per Old French par Proto-Indo-European *ḱad- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *ḱádeti Proto-Italic *kadō Latin cadō Latin cadēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Vulgar Latin *cadentia Old French cheance Old French par cheanceder. Middle English parchaunce English perchance From Middle English parchaunce, from Old French par cheance (“by chance”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/
- British English: /ˌpɜːˈtʃɑːns/