blitzes
/ˈblɪtsɪz/
"blitzes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blitzes” is uncommon English (frequency #89,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,170
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of blitz
Corpus desk
Index EN-blitzes · blitzes · English
blitzes · rank #89,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blurting
Nearest frequency peer: blurting (+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 “blitzes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Biss
Biss
10,835 corpus weight
- blandly
blandly
10,833 corpus weight
- blitzes
blitzes
10,831 corpus weight
- blurting
blurting
10,830 corpus weight
- Bomer
Bomer
10,828 corpus weight
- bort
bort
10,827 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blitzes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blitzes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblɪtsɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blitzes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blitzes is uncommon English at frequency #89,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblɪtsɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of blitz".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blitzes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 blitzes, spelled B-L-I-T-Z-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of blitz
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).