Linksschwenk
German, noun
Linksschwenk is spelled L-I-N-K-S-S-C-H-W-E-N-K (12 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written German, the 376,420th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Linksschwenk is a German masculine noun meaning “a turn to one's left” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Linksschwenk mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea turn to one's left
interjection
- 1
left turn! (command to turn left to soldiers who are marching or about to march)
Rechts um! Zwomal Linksschwenk, ohne Tritt, Marsch!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Linksschwenk
- Linksschwenks genitive
- Linksschwenke plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Linksschwenk in German?
Linksschwenk appears about once in every 40 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).