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"possibility" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often chance (6 letters).
Definitions
a possible alternative
Word origin
From Middle English possibilite, from Middle French possibilité (from Old French possibilite) and directly from Late Latin possibilitās (“possibility”), from Latin possibilis (“possible”); see possible. By surface analysis, possible + -ity.
Used in a sentence
“'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.'”
“Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.”
“VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was, I would lay a ſurer trumpe, Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Possible outcome”11 letters
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