The word found after unscrambling chance means that a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances, an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another, a risk involving danger, a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible, the possibility of future success, be the case by chance, take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome, come upon, as if by accident; meet with, occurring or appearing or singled out by chance, .