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Blitzschutz

German, noun[ˈblɪt͡sˌʃʊt͡s]

Blitzschutz is spelled B-L-I-T-Z-S-C-H-U-T-Z (11 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blitzschutz is a German masculine noun meaning “lightning arrester, lightning protection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorbeugende Sicherheitsmaßnahme, die den Blitzeinschlag oder dessen Auswirkungen begrenzt und geschützt in…”.

What does Blitzschutz mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinelightning arrester, lightning protection

  2. 2

    masculineclipping of Blitzschutzanlage

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. vorbeugende Sicherheitsmaßnahme, die den Blitzeinschlag oder dessen Auswirkungen begrenzt und geschützt in die Erde ableitet

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 Blitzschutz

  • Blitzschutzes genitive
  • Blitzschutze dative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Blitzschutz?

  • [ˈblɪt͡sˌʃʊt͡s]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Blitzschutz in German?

Blitzschutz appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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