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Definition: UNCHANCY |
UNCHANCYAdjective1. Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous. 2. Ill-fated; unlucky. 3. Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. |
Note: Unchancy \Un*chan"cy\, adjective. [Pref un- Scottish chancy fortunate, safe.]. (Websters 1913) |
"UNCHANCY" is a common misspelling or typo for: uncanny, unhandy. |
| "UNCHANCY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNCHANCY" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "UNCHANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, parlous, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unsafe), i pafat (hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless, unblessed, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), нещастен (abject, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, lack-all, lorn, poor, sick, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bez nadìje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בלתי מסוכן (insecure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerencsétlen (calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fey, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, luckless, misadventurous, miserable, sad, star-crossed, stiff, to sink money in an unfortunate undertaking, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, woeful, woesome, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ancyunchay sem sorte (hapless, lucklessness, unlucky), perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot as, insecurity, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, ugly, unsafe, venturesome), malfadado, desastroso (disastrous, gauche, ruinous), azarado (ill tempered, unlucky). (various references) неудачный (abortive, failed, infelicitous, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward). (various references) nezgodan (disadvantageous, inconvenient, inopportune, troublesome, unfavorable, unfavourable, unmeet, untimely), nesrećan (calamitous, down in the mouth, fortuneless, graceless, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky). (various references) rủi (baleful, ill-fated, unhappy, unlucky), không may (baleful, hapless, inauspicious, luckless, unfortunate, unlucky, untoward), bất hạnh nguy hiểm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "UNCHANCY" (pronounced 'Un*chan"cy'): Arithmomancy, Brevetcy, Dancy, fleecy, Gastromancy, Gramercy, icy, juicy, mercy, Omphalomancy, pancy, Racy, Romancy, Rouncy, saucy, spicy, Vallancy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-n-n-u-y" | |
-2 letters: chancy. | |
-3 letters: canny, nancy, nucha, yucca, yucch. | |
-4 letters: achy, chay, cyan, yuan, yuca, yuch. | |
-5 letters: any, can, cay, hay, hun, nah, nan, nay, nun, yah. | |
| 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)55 4E 43 48 41 4E 43 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. .... .- -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N C H A N C Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0043 0048 0041 004E 0043 0059 |
| 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)5548374235483759 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, người Hê-brơ |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, "ו 'רי, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, א 'לית, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik |
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