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hacks

/hæks/interjection, noun, verb

hacks is spelled H-A-C-K-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, hacks means “Used to call attention to another player hacking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hacks?

Letters5: H-A-C-K-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is hacks?

Hacks 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 hacks?

  • /hæks/

Hacks has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-hacks.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with hacks?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as hacks.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shack.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does hacks mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    Used to call attention to another player hacking

noun

  1. 1

    plural of hack (a form of hack)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of hack (a form of hack)

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

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