diabase
French, noun/dja.baz/
diabase is spelled D-I-A-B-A-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diabase is a French feminine noun meaning “diabase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Roche ignée mafique, holocristalline, analogue au basalte volcanique ou au gabbro plutonique, modifiée par un…”.
What does diabase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediabase
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Roche ignée mafique, holocristalline, analogue au basalte volcanique ou au gabbro plutonique, modifiée par un métamorphisme de faible degré.
noun: 1. Diptère du genre Diabasis, renommé en Stichobasis, de conformation intermédiaire entre les taons et les chrysops.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of diabase
- diabases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diabase?
- /dja.baz/
- \dja.baz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diabase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diabase in French?
diabase appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).