What CHANCES Means
CHANCES is a form of CHANCE, which means:
- noun: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances“the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington”
- noun: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another“bad luck caused his downfall”
- verb: be the case by chance“I chanced to meet my old friend in the street”
- verb: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome“When you buy these stocks you are gambling”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CHANCES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 A1 N1 C3 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In CHANCES
91 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (7)
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (28)
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3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.