chance vs toss-up

toss-up vs chance

chance and toss-up both are nouns.

chance is an adjective but toss-up is not an adjective.

chance is a verb but toss-up is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
toss-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, toss-up is a hyponym of chance; that is, toss-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chance:

chance: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
toss-up: an unpredictable phenomenon

Other hyponyms of chance include bad luck, mischance, mishap, even chance, tossup.

chance (noun)	toss-up (noun)
a risk involving danger	an unpredictable phenomenon
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
the possibility of future success

chance (adjective)	toss-up (adjective)
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

chance (verb)	toss-up (verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
be the case by chance

Difference between chance and toss-up

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