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hakenkreuz

noun

hakenkreuz is a noun meaning “The swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-K-E-N-K-R-E-U-Z, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hakenkreuz is hakenkreuzes.

What does hakenkreuz mean?

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaThe swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hakenkreuz

  • hakenkreuzes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hakenkreuz?

Hakenkreuz appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Where does hakenkreuz come from?

Borrowed from German Hakenkreuz.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).