hackathon
\a.ka.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“hackathon” is uncommon French (frequency #66,784 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,784
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Événement où des programmeurs se rencontrent pour collaborer au développement de logiciels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hackathon · hackathon · French
hackathon · rank #66,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,784
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hachage
Nearest frequency peer: hachage (-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 « hackathon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gyrophares
gyrophares
33,220 corpus weight
- habré
habré
33,219 corpus weight
- hachage
hachage
33,218 corpus weight
- hackathon
hackathon
33,217 corpus weight
- hala
hala
33,215 corpus weight
- handicaper
handicaper
33,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hackathon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hackathon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ka.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hackathon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hackathon is uncommon French at frequency #66,784 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ka.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Événement où des programmeurs se rencontrent pour collaborer au développement de logiciels.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hackathon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hackathon, spelled H-A-C-K-A-T-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Événement où des programmeurs se rencontrent pour collaborer au développement de logiciels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hackathon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ambassades en diffusent à l’occasion de salons et de festivals, et organisent même des « hackathons » (fabrication d’un projet VR en 48 heures chrono) à Singapour ou à New York…
En mai s’est tenu un hackathon GNOME pour réduire la consommation de ressources d’une session typique de GNOME.
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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