Blitzlicht
[ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt]
The verdict
“Blitzlicht” is uncommon German (frequency #66,055 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,055
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurz aufflammendes, sehr helles Licht, das bei der Aufnahme von Fotografien in dunklen Räumen benutzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-blitzlicht · Blitzlicht · German
Blitzlicht · rank #66,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,055
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blockflöten
Nearest frequency peer: Blockflöten (+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 „Blitzlicht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bismark
Bismark
33,949 corpus weight
- bizarrer
bizarrer
33,948 corpus weight
- Blitzlicht
Blitzlicht
33,946 corpus weight
- Blockflöten
Blockflöten
33,945 corpus weight
- blutenden
blutenden
33,944 corpus weight
- Blutgerinns…
Blutgerinnsel
33,943 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blitzlicht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blitzlicht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blitzlicht is uncommon German at frequency #66,055 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈblɪt͡sˌlɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blitzlicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ohne Blitzlicht wird auf dem Foto nichts zu sehen sein.
An vielen Fotoapparaten kann man das Blitzlicht manuell ein- oder ausschalten.
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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