cracker
\kʁa.kœʁ\
The verdict
“cracker” is uncommon French (frequency #52,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne dont le passe-temps est de déplomber les sécurités des logiciels, notamment les partagiciels (qui nécessitent des clés d’enregistrement).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cracker · cracker · French
cracker · rank #52,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,597
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coécrit
Nearest frequency peer: coécrit (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cracker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cotations
cotations
47,407 corpus weight
- couplées
couplées
47,406 corpus weight
- coécrit
coécrit
47,405 corpus weight
- cracker
cracker
47,404 corpus weight
- criante
criante
47,403 corpus weight
- croquette
croquette
47,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cracker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cracker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cracker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cracker is uncommon French at frequency #52,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁa.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cracker, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cracker, spelled C-R-A-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne dont le passe-temps est de déplomber les sécurités des logiciels, notamment les partagiciels (qui nécessitent des clés d’enregistrement).
- 2Biscuit sec salé et croustillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cracker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cracker est un individu mal intentionné dont le but est de pénétrer des systèmes informatiques pour y voler des informations, ou pour détourner des documents, etc.
Sur un des petits guéridons, il y a un plateau rond en loupe d’orme avec trois tasses, une théière, un pot à eau et une soupe contenant encore quelques crackers.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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