abracadabra
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,071
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abracadabra is anSpanishintj. It means: Úsase por los magos o ilusionistas como parte de sus conjuros o trucos. Pronounced [aβ̞ɾakaˈð̞aβ̞ɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abracadabra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | [aβ̞ɾakaˈð̞aβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abracadabra is 11 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞ɾakaˈð̞aβ̞ɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,071 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abracadabra in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is abracadabra, spelled A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Úsase por los magos o ilusionistas como parte de sus conjuros o trucos.
- 2Palabra cabalística a la que se le atribuyen cualidades mágicas; se escribía en once renglones, quitando sucesivamente a cada uno la última letra del anterior, de modo que el conjunto formaba un triángulo.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #69,071 in Spanish
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