abracadabra
French, noun/a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁa/
abracadabra is spelled A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abracadabra is a French masculine noun meaning “an unspecified magical formula” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mot auquel on attribuait anciennement des vertus magiques, et qui, disait-on, guérissait la fièvre, lorsqu’on…”.
What does abracadabra mean in English?
interjection
- 1
abracadabra
noun
- 1
masculinean unspecified magical formula
- 2
masculinea mystical word from kabbalism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mot auquel on attribuait anciennement des vertus magiques, et qui, disait-on, guérissait la fièvre, lorsqu’on le portait inscrit sur une amulette autour du cou, écrit dans une certaine forme. 2. Énoncé surprenant, incompréhensible, inexplicable.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abracadabra
- abracadabras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abracadabra?
- /a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁa/
- \a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abracadabra
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abracadabra in French?
abracadabra appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).