even chance

1. 1.

   an unpredictable phenomenon

   “it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose”

   Synonymstossuptoss-up

   Broaderluck

Questions about even chance

What does even chance mean?

even chance means "an unpredictable phenomenon".

What is another word for even chance?

Close synonyms include tossup, toss-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is even chance a common word?

even chance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.