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Definition: Happenstance |
HappenstanceNoun1. An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HappenstanceSynonym: coincidence (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ha, ha, ha! Sweet Aud! Your logic is insane and happenstance, like that of a troll. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Happenstance (1997) | |
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| "Happenstance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Happenstance" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
happenstance | 21 |
2001 happenstance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "happenstance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | وقایع اتفاقی , روی دادشانسی . (various references) | |
German | glücklicher Umstand. (various references) | |
Hungarian | véletlenség (contingency, contingent, fortuity), eshetőség (break, contingency, contingent, eventuality, hazard). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appenstancehay.(various references) | |
Romanian | întâmplare (accident, adventure, case, chance, contingency, event, fact, fate, hap, happening, hazard, incidence, incident, luck, occasionality, occurrence, passage), împrejurare (circumstance, circumstantial, fact). (various references) | |
Russian | случайность (chance, contingency, eventuality, fortuitousness, fortuity, haphazard), случайное происшествие. (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfällighet (accidence, accident, chance, coincidence, come by chance, contingency, fortuitousness, fortuity, hazard). (various references) | |
Turkish | tesadüf (accident, chance, coincidence, conjunction, contingency, encounter, flukey, fluky, fortuity, hap, incidence), rastlantı (accident, coincidence, concurence, conjunction, contingent, encounter, fortuity, hap, incidence, irony), beklenmedik durum. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "happenstance": happenstances. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "happenstance" (pronounced ha"punsta'ns) |
| 5 | -s t a' n s | circumstance. |
| 3 | -a' n s | freelance. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-n-n-p-p-s-t" | |
-3 letters: penchants. | |
-4 letters: canteens, cheapens, cheapest, enchants, enhances, haptenes, heptanes, panaches, penances, penchant, pentanes, pheasant, phenates, saphenae. | |
-5 letters: achenes, anapest, annates, apaches, appease, canapes, canteen, capstan, captans, caseate, catenae, catenas, catnaps, cetanes, chaetae, chasten, cheapen, enchant, enchase, enhance, escheat, ethanes, happens, haptene, haptens, hepcats, heptane, nascent, neatens, panache, patches, peaches, peahens, peasant, pechans, pectase, pectens, penance, penates, pennate, pentane, petnaps, phenate, pschent, saphena, schappe, teaches, tenaces, tenches. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-n-n-p-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: happenstances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 70 70 65 6E 73 74 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .--. .--. . -. ... - .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a p p e n s t a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0070 0070 0065 006E 0073 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426782827180858667806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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