Blechlawine
German, noun[ˈblɛçlaˌviːnə]
Blechlawine is spelled B-L-E-C-H-L-A-W-I-N-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blechlawine is a German feminine noun meaning “a slowly advancing, long, solid line of vehicles due to dense traffic or forced flow; river of metal, stream of cars” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch dichten Verkehr bedingt nur langsam vorankommende lange Fahrzeugkolonne”.
What does Blechlawine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinformala slowly advancing, long, solid line of vehicles due to dense traffic or forced flow; river of metal, stream of cars
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. durch dichten Verkehr bedingt nur langsam vorankommende lange Fahrzeugkolonne
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Blechlawine
- Blechlawinen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Blechlawine?
- [ˈblɛçlaˌviːnə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Blechlawine in German?
Blechlawine appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).