hacker

Other forms of hacker

plural

hackers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hacker

What does hacker mean?

hacker means "someone who plays golf poorly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hacker?

hacker has 2 syllables: hac-ker. The stress falls on "hac". In IPA it is /ˈhækɚ/.

What is another word for hacker?

Close synonyms include hack, drudge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hacker a common word?

hacker is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.