basalte
\ba.zalt\
The verdict
“basalte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,619
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche volcanique mafique, souvent noire, à structure microlithique, compacte, formée d’un agrégat de petits cristaux divers noyés dans un verre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-basalte · basalte · French
basalte · rank #40,619 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baer
Nearest frequency peer: baer (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « basalte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avouait
avouait
59,385 corpus weight
- awesome
awesome
59,384 corpus weight
- baer
baer
59,383 corpus weight
- basalte
basalte
59,382 corpus weight
- bastian
bastian
59,381 corpus weight
- battit
battit
59,379 corpus weight
What this shows « basalte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | basalte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.zalt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « basalte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around basalte (IPA \ba.zalt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Roche volcanique mafique, souvent noire, à structure microlithique, compacte, formée d’un agrégat de petits cristaux divers noyés dans un verre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for basalte, with forms such as "absalte", "baaslte", and "basalet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "basant", "basile", "banale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is basalte, spelled B-A-S-A-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche volcanique mafique, souvent noire, à structure microlithique, compacte, formée d’un agrégat de petits cristaux divers noyés dans un verre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basalte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l'on suit la route de Clermont au Puy, on trouve un grand plateau de basalte dès que l'on a passé Vieille-Brioude. Il commence à la Chomette, et les maisons de ce village sont bâties sur cette roche.
Dix-sept îles, tufs et basaltes en amas pyramidaux ou étrangement déchiquetés, surgissent de la mer ; piliers immenses, elles supportent les brumes hautes, à moins que, monolithes gigantesques, leurs sommets ne les dominent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absalte
- baaslte
- basalet
- basallte
- basaltte
- basatle
- baslate
- bassalte
- bbasalte
- bsaalte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basalte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).