hack
^((h aspiré))\ak\
The verdict
“hack” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,232
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piratage informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hack · hack · French
hack · rank #24,232 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,232
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH guérie
Nearest frequency peer: guérie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « hack »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- guidage
guidage
75,772 corpus weight
- guys
guys
75,771 corpus weight
- guérie
guérie
75,770 corpus weight
- hack
hack
75,769 corpus weight
- Hammond
Hammond
75,768 corpus weight
- Heidegger
Heidegger
75,766 corpus weight
What this shows « hack » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hack »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around hack (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,232 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for hack, with forms such as "ahck", "hacck", and "hackk". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hk", "han", "has", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hack, spelled H-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Piratage informatique.
- 2Bidouillage informatique visant à corriger un problème, optimiser une solution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un hack en moins d’une minute : comment les hackers peuvent vous pirater en un temps record.
Les UTMs : un hack simple pour vos stratégies d’acquisition. Découvrez pourquoi et comment utiliser les UTMs pour analyser avec précision les résultats de vos campagnes d'acquisition et faciliter leurs optimisations.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahck
- hacck
- hackk
- hakc
- hcak
- hhack
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hack - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hack", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).