happenchance vs surprise

happenchance

noun
  • Coincidence. 

adj
  • Characterized by happenstance; chance; fortunate or unfortunate. 

surprise

noun
  • Something unexpected. 

  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

How often have the words happenchance and surprise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )