# Basalt vs bemalt

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### Basalt
*noun · IPA [baˈzalt] · frequency rank #43,040*
dunkles, sehr hartes Gestein vulkanischen Ursprungs

### bemalt
*verb · IPA [bəˈmaːlt] · frequency rank #21,189*
Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bemalen

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/basalt-vs-bemalt