abracadabrant
\a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“abracadabrant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complètement incroyable, qu’une personne sensée ne peut pas croire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abracadabrant · abracadabrant · French
abracadabrant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abracadabrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abracadabrant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abracadabrant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Complètement incroyable, qu’une personne sensée ne peut pas croire.".
abracadabrant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abracadabrant, spelled A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Complètement incroyable, qu’une personne sensée ne peut pas croire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abracadabrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Viennet veut sans doute que, si l’ennemi paraît, au lieu d’aller faire le coup de fusil pour l’empêcher d’entrer, nos gardes civiques continuent paisiblement de labourer leurs champs, d’ouvrir leurs boutiques, de faire des vers abracadabrans, et d’aller toucher à l’Académie leur jeton de présence.
[…] flétrissez aussi le charlatanisme de ces pseudo-virtuoses qui ont obtenu des succès apocryphes à New-York ou en Californie, et qui, précédés de réputations flambardes, à base de réclame, escortés de notices abracadabrantes, viennent défigurer sur nos grandes scènes lyriques des partitions dont elles ridiculisent la majesté par les exagérations de leur…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.