abracadabrant

\a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\

/\a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\/ adj

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.

Key facts for abracadabrant
PropertyValue
Headwordabracadabrant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « abracadabrant » en français

abracadabrantreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Complètement incroyable, qu’une personne sensée ne peut pas croire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how abracadabrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. […] 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…

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abracadabrant"?
"abracadabrant" is spelled A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\.
What does "abracadabrant" mean?
As an adjective, "abracadabrant" means: Complètement incroyable, qu’une personne sensée ne peut pas croire.
How do you pronounce "abracadabrant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abracadabrant" is \a.bʁa.ka.da.bʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abracadabrant" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list