Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hacktivist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: hack-tivist
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who engages in hacktivism.

Example Sentences

"One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist.."
"However, there remain many cybersecurity concerns about the railways. For example, and perhaps more pertinently, 'hacktivists' - hackers with a political rather than a financial motive - in Belarus were reported to have taken breached computers that control rail movements in the country in an effort to delay Russian supplies to their front line in the early stages of the war against Ukraine."

Etymology

Blend of hack + activist, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

Inflected Forms

hacktivists (plural) hactivist (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

hacker artivist ecoteur

Questions

What does hacktivist mean?: A person who engages in hacktivism.
Where does hacktivist come from?: Blend of hack + activist, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

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