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This paper discusses the recent use of the foreign origin adverb “wan-chan”. The origin of “wan-chan” is assumed to be the English “one chance”. The adverb “wan-chan” roughly　means “unlikely, but possible”. Although “wan-chan” has a similar meaning to “hyotto-shitara”, “hyotto-shite”　 perhaps, etc., it tends to co-occur less frequently with interrogative forms and marked modality forms such as “kamo-shirenai” and shows relatively free behavior compared to these adverbial phrases. In Japanese, it is rare for a foreign origin word (“gairaigo”)to become an adverb, and in particular, it is extremely rare for a foreign word to appear as an adverb of probability.　The reason for this special situation is the lexical situation of presentday Japanese, in which there is no other adverbial of an inherent word that expresses low probability and is within four mora of an easily usable word.