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say it: CHAN-see
chancy is an adjective meaning "of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk". It carries 2 recorded senses.
subject to accident or chance or change
“a chancy appeal at best”
“getting that job was definitely fluky”
“a fluky wind”
“an iffy proposition”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chancy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.