basaltisch
[baˈzaltɪʃ]
The verdict
“basaltisch” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus Basalt bestehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-basaltisch · basaltisch · German
basaltisch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | basaltisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [baˈzaltɪʃ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „basaltisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
basaltisch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [baˈzaltɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aus Basalt bestehend".
Zero misspellings are on record for basaltisch in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is basaltisch, spelled B-A-S-A-L-T-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1aus Basalt bestehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how basaltisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„An der Unterseite der alten, inzwischen sehr kalten Platte schieden sich im Laufe der Zeit große Mengen basaltischen Gesteins aus dem Erdmantel ab.“
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