Blitzkrieg
[ˈblɪt͡sˌkʁiːk]
The verdict
“Blitzkrieg” is uncommon German (frequency #60,427 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,427
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kriegsführung, die schnell eine Entscheidung bringen soll
Corpus desk
Index DE-blitzkrieg · Blitzkrieg · German
Blitzkrieg · rank #60,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,427
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bleistifte
Nearest frequency peer: Bleistifte (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Blitzkrieg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bitterlich
bitterlich
39,577 corpus weight
- Bitumen
Bitumen
39,576 corpus weight
- Bleistifte
Bleistifte
39,575 corpus weight
- Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
39,574 corpus weight
- Blutspuren
Blutspuren
39,573 corpus weight
- Bockwurst
Bockwurst
39,572 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blitzkrieg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blitzkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɪt͡sˌkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blitzkrieg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blitzkrieg is uncommon German at frequency #60,427 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈblɪt͡sˌkʁiːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kriegsführung, die schnell eine Entscheidung bringen soll".
No misspelling variants are generated for Blitzkrieg in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Blitzkrieg, spelled B-L-I-T-Z-K-R-I-E-G.
Definition
- 1Kriegsführung, die schnell eine Entscheidung bringen soll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blitzkrieg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Blitzkrieg an der Westfront war schnell gewonnen.
„Ich aber, ganz elend von dem Transitgeflüster, ich staunte sehr, wenn ich derer gedachte, die in den Flammen der Bombardements und in den rasenden Einschlägen des Blitzkrieges zugrunde gegangen waren, zu Tausenden, zu Hunderttausenden, und viele waren daselbst auch zur Welt gekommen, ganz ohne Kenntnis der Konsuln.“
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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