Blitzschach
[ˈblɪt͡sˌʃax]
The verdict
“Blitzschach” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schnelle Form des Schachspiels, wobei jeder Spieler für die gesamte Partie nur wenige Minuten Zeit hat (meistens fünf Minuten)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blitzschach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɪt͡sˌʃax] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Blitzschach” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Blitzschach is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈblɪt͡sˌʃax]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "schnelle Form des Schachspiels, wobei jeder Spieler für die gesamte Partie nur wenige Minuten Zeit hat (meistens fünf Minuten)".
Zero misspellings are on record for Blitzschach in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Blitzschach, spelled B-L-I-T-Z-S-C-H-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1schnelle Form des Schachspiels, wobei jeder Spieler für die gesamte Partie nur wenige Minuten Zeit hat (meistens fünf Minuten)
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Blitzschach”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-L-I-T-Z-S-C-H-A-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈblɪt͡sˌʃax] (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.