abraxas
\a.bʁak.sas\
The verdict
“abraxas” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot aux vertus magiques adopté par les gnostiques des basilidiens et représentant les trois cent soixante cinq émanations du Dieu tout-puissant Archon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abraxas · abraxas · French
abraxas · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | abraxas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁak.sas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
abraxas is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bʁak.sas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abraxas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abraxas, spelled A-B-R-A-X-A-S.
Definition
- 1Mot aux vertus magiques adopté par les gnostiques des basilidiens et représentant les trois cent soixante cinq émanations du Dieu tout-puissant Archon.
- 2Classe d’objets, tels que statuettes, plaques métalliques et surtout pierres gravées, sur lesquels on lit plusieurs lettres grecques, dont la réunion forme le mot abraxas ou abrasax, qui n’appartient à aucune langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abraxas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot abraxas ayant la vertu d’attirer puissamment les influences de l’intelligence productive du monde, on fit graver sur des pierres qu’on nomma des abraxas, dont les cabinets d’Europe contiennent un nombre prodigieux.
L’abraxas se portait comme une amulette.
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.