basalto
/bɐ.ˈzaɫ.tu/
The verdict
“basalto” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,351 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,351
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rocha ígnea eruptiva, de granulação fina, cuja cor varia de cinzento-escura a preta, sendo constituída principalmente de plagioclásio e piroxênio e, em muitos casos, de olivina
Corpus desk
Index PT-basalto · basalto · Portuguese
basalto · rank #58,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,351
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH basilar
Nearest frequency peer: basilar (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “basalto”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ateniense
ateniense
41,663 corpus weight
- Attila
Attila
41,662 corpus weight
- automatizaç…
automatização
41,660 corpus weight
- basalto
basalto
41,650 corpus weight
- basilar
basilar
41,649 corpus weight
- blindar
blindar
41,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “basalto” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basalto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈzaɫ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “basalto” em português
Rare enough to double-check
basalto is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,351 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐ.ˈzaɫ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "rocha ígnea eruptiva, de granulação fina, cuja cor varia de cinzento-escura a preta, sendo constituída principalmente de plagioclásio e piroxênio e, em muitos casos, de olivina".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for basalto, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is basalto, spelled B-A-S-A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1rocha ígnea eruptiva, de granulação fina, cuja cor varia de cinzento-escura a preta, sendo constituída principalmente de plagioclásio e piroxênio e, em muitos casos, de olivina
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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