hacker
^((h aspiré))\a.ke\
The verdict
“hacker” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,399
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Générique) Modifier ou améliorer tout et n’importe quoi (logiciel et matériel, informatique ou non)… Pas par nécessité, mais par curiosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hacker · hacker · French
hacker · rank #15,399 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,399
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habituée
Nearest frequency peer: habituée (-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 « hacker »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gisement
gisement
84,605 corpus weight
- guéri
guéri
84,604 corpus weight
- habituée
habituée
84,603 corpus weight
- hacker
hacker
84,602 corpus weight
- hangar
hangar
84,601 corpus weight
- hilaire
hilaire
84,600 corpus weight
What this shows « hacker » 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 | hacker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hacker »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hacker (IPA ^((h aspiré))\a.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,399 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hacker, with forms such as "ahcker", "haccker", and "hacekr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "hâter", "hockey", "harper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hacker, spelled H-A-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1(Générique) Modifier ou améliorer tout et n’importe quoi (logiciel et matériel, informatique ou non)… Pas par nécessité, mais par curiosité.
- 2Explorer, fouiller, sonder, bricoler, bidouiller un système d’information, un matériel ou système informatique, par culture numérique ou jeu.
- 3Réussir à déjouer les mesures de sécurité d’un système informatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hacker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous voulez hacker votre vieille voiture, passez voir du côté du Bulgare Marian HackMan Marinov. Celui-ci a expliqué jeudi comment il avait transformé son véhicule vieux d'une dizaine d’années en engin high-tech, climatisé et contrôlé à distance via SMS grâce à des logiciels libres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahcker
- haccker
- hacekr
- hackerr
- hackker
- hackre
- hakcer
- hcaker
- hhacker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hacker - 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 "hacker", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).