HACK — 4 letter word
hack
The word hack has 4 letters: H, A, C, K. It contains 1 vowel and 3 consonants. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. As a noun, it means "a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc".
4 letter word "hack": H A C K — noun
Scrabble score: 13 Words With Friends score: 13
Letter analysis of hack
| Letter | Count | Type | Scrabble pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | 1 | Consonant | 4 |
| A | 1 | Vowel | 1 |
| C | 1 | Consonant | 3 |
| K | 1 | Consonant | 5 |
1 vowels, 3 consonants, 4 unique letters
Definition of hack
noun
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc "The horse was just a hack, not a fancy show horse or racer, but it got me where I needed to go."
- a horse kept for hire "I hired a hack for a ride in the country."
- an old or over-worked horse "The tired old hack had earned its retirement to the pasture." Synonyms: jade
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money "We got into a hack at the airport taxi stand." Synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab
- a tool such as a hoe, pick, or mattock used for breaking up the surface of the soil "I worked the hard soil of the new garden with a hack."
- one who works hard at boring tasks Synonyms: drudge, hacker
- a mediocre and disdained writer "They're just a hack; none of their stories have any literary value at all." Synonyms: hack writer, literary hack
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends "The new mayor was nothing more than a hack." Synonyms: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack
verb
- cough spasmodically "The patient with emphysema has been hacking all day." Synonyms: whoop
- significantly cut up a manuscript "The editor hacked the story beyond recognition." Synonyms: cut up
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best." Synonyms: hack on
- in soccer, to kick on the shins "Our team was awarded a penalty kick after the opposing defender hacked our striker."
- kick on the arms
- cut with a hacking tool Synonyms: chop
- clear away by cutting "We hacked our way through the forest."
- be able to manage or manage successfully "I can't hack it anymore." Synonyms: cut
- to gain unauthorized access to a computer system by manipulating code; to crack "According to the logs, someone is trying to hack our database server."
- to gain unauthorized access to an online account owned by a person or organization "I can't believe my account was hacked again -- isn't "12345" a strong password?"