hacken
German, verb
hacken is spelled H-A-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written German, the 10,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hacken is a German verb meaning “to chop, to hack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hacken is a different word: “plural of Hacke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem spitzen Werkzeug auflockern, zerkleinern, zerschlagen”.
What does hacken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chop, to hack
- 2
colloquialto be choppy, to not work properly, to not run smoothly
verb
- 1
to hack
noun
- 1
plural of Hacke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem spitzen Werkzeug auflockern, zerkleinern, zerschlagen 2. (mit dem Schnabel) kräftig picken 3. schnell und unsachgemäß, grob Tasten bedienen (Computertastatur, Tasteninstrument) 4. unfair, hart spielen
verb: 1. sich unberechtigt Zugang verschaffen zu …; in fremde Computersysteme eindringen
noun: 1. das Zerkleinern von etwas mit Hieben, zum Beispiel von harter Erde mit Hilfe einer Hacke
noun: 1. das Eindringen in ein Computersystem
noun: 1. Ferse 2. Absatz
noun: 1. Arbeit
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 hacken
- hackt present singular third-person
- hackte past
- gehackt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hackend participle present
- hacke first-person indicative present
- hackst indicative present second-person
- hackest second-person singular subjunctive
- hacket plural second-person subjunctive
- hackten first-person indicative plural
- hacktest indicative preterite second-person
- hacktet indicative plural preterite
- hack imperative second-person singular
- habe gehackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hack! imperative singular
- hacke! imperative singular
- hackt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hacken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hacken in German?
hacken appears 6.2 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).