ひょっと
ひょっと · hyotto · JLPT N1 · noun
possibly
🤔 hyo-tto sounds like 'maybe, hyo!' - a shrug-word: 'possibly, or by accident'
ひょっと is a sound-alike for a hesitant shrug: 'hyo... to?' Use it for 'perhaps' and for things that happened by chance, like 'ひょっとして' (could it be that...).