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hackable

adjective

hackable is spelled H-A-C-K-A-B-L-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, hackable means “That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hackable?

Letters8: H-A-C-K-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is hackable?

Hackable appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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 hackable?

  • UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-hackable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of hackable

  • more hackable comparative
  • most hackable superlative

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

What does hackable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.

  2. 2

    That lends itself to hacking (technical tinkering and modification); moddable.

    The robotic vacuum cleaner proved to be hackable, so we reprogrammed two of them to race each other.

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

Hackable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpiratable (that can be hacked), reprogrammable, bidouillable (that lends itself to hacking; moddable)

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 hackable come from?

From hack + -able.

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

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