gabbro
/ˈɡabɹəʊ/noun
gabbro is a noun meaning “Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-B-B-R-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gabbro is gabbros.
What does gabbro mean?
noun
- 1
Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gabbro?
- UK /ˈɡabɹəʊ/
Gabbro has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gabbro.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gabbro
- gabbros plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gabbro?
Gabbro appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gabbro in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense igneous rock:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gabbro come from?
Borrowed from Italian gabbro.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).