basaltic
"basaltic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“basaltic” is uncommon English (frequency #55,264 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,264
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to basalt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-basaltic · basaltic · English
basaltic · rank #55,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bartolo
Nearest frequency peer: Bartolo (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “basaltic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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barbecued
44,741 corpus weight
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bartering
44,739 corpus weight
- Bartolo
Bartolo
44,738 corpus weight
- basaltic
basaltic
44,737 corpus weight
- beanstalk
beanstalk
44,736 corpus weight
- Becks
Becks
44,733 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “basaltic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basaltic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “basaltic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
basaltic is uncommon English at frequency #55,264 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to basalt.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for basaltic, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From basalt + -ic. The correct English form is basaltic, spelled B-A-S-A-L-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to basalt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basaltic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.
The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Etymology
From basalt + -ic.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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