perchance

Examples

• All

• Perchance, the rain will stop before the picnic starts.

• Or we perchance stumble upon a ball rug halfway through.

• So to die to sleep, perchance, to dream.

  Film Courage

• To sleep perchance, to dream, ay, there's the rug.

• So despite the that perchance haphazard way that you're reading, it does seem, at least from the outside that you are striving, I would say pretty truly for excellence.

  Tom Bilyeu

• She wondered, perchance, if he would call her later.

• They might, perchance, find a solution to the problem.

Synonyms

M

maybe

vsperchance

∞ 1.0

It might happen or be true

is an older or literary alternative rather than a casual modern form

P

perhaps

vsperchance

∞ 1.0

To say something might be true

is instead an older or literary way to express the same uncertainty

P

possibly

vsperchance

∞ 1.0

May happen or be true and sometimes makes a request more polite

is framed as an archaic or literary choice rather than neutral modern usage

B

by chance

vsperchance

66 2.3

Happening without planning or intending

is broader, also used to mean mere possibility or literary doubt

H

haply

vsperchance

• Archaic

1 9.9

In a way that happens by chance and not by plan

focuses on possibility in an archaic or literary register rather than everyday speech

P

peradventure

vsperchance

• Archaic

9.9

Says that something might happen by chance

is the same idea but presented as an archaic or literary form

P

percase

vsperchance

• Archaic

9.9

To show that something might happen

is used as an archaic or literary alternative rather than modern speech

M

mayhap

vsperchance

• Archaic

9.9

People use it to say maybe in old or poetic language

is presented as an archaic or literary form instead of common usage

How Certain

certainly

∞ 1.0

probably

∞ 1.0

perchance

• Archaic

9.9

maybe

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology