Basalt
[baˈzalt]
The verdict
“Basalt” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,040
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dunkles, sehr hartes Gestein vulkanischen Ursprungs
Corpus desk
Index DE-basalt · Basalt · German
Basalt · rank #43,040 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,040
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH baff
Nearest frequency peer: baff (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Basalt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Avon
Avon
56,965 corpus weight
- baff
baff
56,962 corpus weight
- Basalt
Basalt
56,961 corpus weight
- Bauwerks
Bauwerks
56,960 corpus weight
- bedeckten
bedeckten
56,959 corpus weight
- bedenkliche
bedenkliche
56,958 corpus weight
What this shows „Basalt“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Basalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈzalt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Basalt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Basalt (IPA [baˈzalt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,040 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "dunkles, sehr hartes Gestein vulkanischen Ursprungs".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Basalt, with forms such as "absalt", "baaslt", and "basallt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Basel", "Basil", "behält", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Basalt, spelled B-A-S-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1dunkles, sehr hartes Gestein vulkanischen Ursprungs
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Basalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bekanntlich bildet der Basalt, ein braunes vulkanisches Gestein, oft Formen von überraschender Eigentümlichkeit.“
„Das mächtige Kreuz vor der Kirche, von Steinmetzen aus heimischem Basalt gehauen, imponiert durch seine monumentale Größe ebenso wie durch seine Aussagekraft als Mahnmal für die Toten der beiden Weltkriege des 20. Jahrhunderts (…).“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absalt
- baaslt
- basallt
- basaltt
- basatl
- baslat
- bassalt
- bbasalt
- bsaalt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Basalt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).