Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take a chance

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.17 in modern English

Syllables: take a chance
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To risk doing something; to try something risky.

Example Sentences

"He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist."
"He took a chance on me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make."
"[…] say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing to take a chance on experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures."
"When we did not use the X-ray, if we broke a piece of root off in extracting a tooth, we took a chance, left it in, and expected it to work out."

Inflected Forms

takes a chance (present, singular) taking a chance (participle, present) took a chance (past) taken a chance (participle, past)

Synonyms

roll the dice take a flyer take a gamble take a risk gamble chance risk hazard take chances adventure run a risk

Questions

What does take a chance mean?: To risk doing something; to try something risky.

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