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hacker

French, noun/a.kœʁ/

hacker is spelled H-A-C-K-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hacker is a French masculine noun meaning “hacker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de hackeur”.

What does hacker mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehacker

verb

  1. 1

    to hack

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Explorer, fouiller, sonder, bricoler, bidouiller un système d’information, un matériel ou système informatique, par culture numérique ou jeu. 2. Réussir à déjouer les mesures de sécurité d’un système informatique.

noun: 1. Variante de hackeur. 2. Bidouilleur informatique.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of hacker

  • hackers plural
  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • hackant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • hacké participle past
  • hacke first-person indicative present
  • hackes indicative present second-person
  • hackons first-person indicative plural
  • hackez indicative plural present
  • hackent indicative plural present
  • hackais first-person imperfect indicative
  • hackait imperfect indicative singular
  • hackions first-person imperfect indicative
  • hackiez imperfect indicative plural
  • hackaient imperfect indicative plural
  • hackai first-person historic indicative
  • hackas historic indicative past
  • hacka historic indicative past

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce hacker?

  • /a.kœʁ/
  • /a.ke/
  • ^((h aspiré))\a.ke\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to hacker

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is hacker in French?

hacker appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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