luck
About 13.22 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
The raffle is just a matter of luck.
- noun A favourable chance occurrence.
Sometimes it takes a bit of luck to get success.
- noun A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
He blew on the dice for luck.
- noun Success.
I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck.
- noun The results of a random number generator.
The creators of tool-assisted speedruns often manipulate luck to get the most favorable results in order to save the most time.
- verb To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon.
Similar words
fortune chance lot hazard destiny fate portion circumstances lucky fluke
Often followed by
to and in of with would that was for
Word family
lucked lucking luckless lucks
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