Blitzlicht
[ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt]
The verdict
“Blitzlicht” is an uncommon German word, ranked #66,055 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,055
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kurz aufflammendes, sehr helles Licht, das bei der Aufnahme von Fotografien in dunklen Räumen benutzt wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blitzlicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Blitzlicht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Blitzlicht is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,055 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "kurz aufflammendes, sehr helles Licht, das bei der Aufnahme von Fotografien in dunklen Räumen benutzt wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Blitzlicht, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Blitzlicht, spelled B-L-I-T-Z-L-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1kurz aufflammendes, sehr helles Licht, das bei der Aufnahme von Fotografien in dunklen Räumen benutzt wird
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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Using “Blitzlicht”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-L-I-T-Z-L-I-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.