perchance

From Middle English parchaunce, from Old French par cheance (“by chance”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)ˈtʃɑːns/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːns

perchance (not comparable)

1. perhaps; by chance
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVII:

     A great black bird, Apollyon's bosom-friend, / Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned / That brushed my cap—perchance the guide I sought.

   You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?

• by any chance
• maybe
• peradventure
• perhaps
• possibly
• mayhap