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Chanting vs Chancing - What's the difference?

chanting | chancing |

As verbs the difference between chanting and chancing

is that chanting is present participle of lang=en while chancing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between chanting and chancing

is that chanting is singing, especially as a chant is sung while chancing is something that happens by chance.

chanting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Singing, especially as a chant is sung.
    • I remember much chanting in church during my childhood.
    the Synod of Aberdeen forbade 'chantings and choruses' at funerals

    chancing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that happens by chance.
  • * 1832 , Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual (page viii)
    • Although some of the subjects treated of are deciduous, all of them last for seasons; and such is the intention of the book, whatever may be its chance in a world of chancings .
  • * Thomas Hardy
    • I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse