blitzed
/blɪtst/
"blitzed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blitzed” is uncommon English (frequency #61,320 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,320
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of blitz
Corpus desk
Index EN-blitzed · blitzed · English
blitzed · rank #61,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,320
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blistered
Nearest frequency peer: blistered (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blitzed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- birdwatching
birdwatching
38,685 corpus weight
- blam
blam
38,684 corpus weight
- blistered
blistered
38,682 corpus weight
- blitzed
blitzed
38,681 corpus weight
- bluewater
bluewater
38,680 corpus weight
- BOJ
BOJ
38,678 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blitzed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blitzed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /blɪtst/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blitzed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blitzed is uncommon English at frequency #61,320 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /blɪtst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of blitz".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blitzed, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is blitzed, spelled B-L-I-T-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of blitz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blitzed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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