cracker
/ˈkɹækə(ɹ)/noun
cracker is spelled C-R-A-C-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cracker means “A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cracker is crackers.
How many letters and syllables are in cracker?
| Letters | 7: C-R-A-C-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is cracker?
Cracker appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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).
How do you pronounce cracker?
- /ˈkɹækə(ɹ)/
Cracker has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cracker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cracker
- crackers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cracker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- 2
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- 3
A prawn cracker.
- 4
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- 5
A firecracker.
- 6
A Christmas cracker.
- 7
UKA northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- 8
A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
a lobster and crab shell cracker
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cracker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cracker, craquelin , crackeur, crackeuse |
| German | Cracker , Crackerin |
| Portuguese | bolacha, crocante , branquelo |
| Spanish | galleta, galleta de agua, galleta salada, saltina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cracker come from?
From Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, make a sound”) + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).