Home › Words › H › happenchancehappenchancehappenchance means characterized by happenstance; chance; fortunate or unfortunate.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, happenchance ranks #13,972 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyApparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.adjCharacterized by happenstance; chance; fortunate or unfortunate.e.g.“The advent of the Son in the flesh is no happenchance occurrence: it has a hinterland of deliberate and necessary preparation.” — 2017, Iain MacKenzie, Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, page 142:nounCoincidence.e.g.“It may be that some day I will find a respectable population of shells, but that will be mere happenchance.” — 1955, Henry van der Schalie, quoting Goodrich, “Calvin Goodrich, 1874-1954”, in University of Michigan Summer Session 1955 Announcement, page 12:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).