hacker
/hækəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A hacker hacked into his computer account yesterday."
- "I'm a computer crook, the Willie Sutton of hackers. I break into computer systems for fun—and profit. To me, the Apple is the forbidden fruit."
- "Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender."
- "Cris “Space Rogue” Thomas, another ex-L0pht member who testified alongside Zatko that day, said that L0pht would do everything it could to get companies to collaboratively fix software issues the hacker group found."
- "In 2022, hackers leaked unreleased footage from its next iteration of GTA."
- "[O]ne good hacker, being a luſty labourer, vvill at good eaſe hacke or cut more then halfe an Acre of ground in a day; […]"
Etymology
From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *keg-, hackere, *haccian, *hakkōn, *hakkōną, -
- Suffix: hackney cab, hack
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hækəɹ/
- British English: /hækə/
Usage
- Dated
- Obsolete
- British usage
- American usage
- Archaic
- Intransitive verb
- Countable
- Uncountable