The Hebrew Alphabet Flashcards

The Hebrew Alphabet flashcards — the free 27

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א

Alef — silent; it carries whatever vowel is written with it

ב

Bet — /b/ as in 'boy' with the dagesh dot (בּ); without the dot it is vet, /v/

ג

Gimel — /g/ as in 'go'

ד

Dalet — /d/ as in 'dog'

ה

He (hey) — /h/ as in 'hat'; not sounded at the end of a word unless dotted

ו

Vav — /v/ as a consonant; it also spells the vowels o (וֹ) and u (וּ)

ז

Zayin — /z/ as in 'zoo'

ח

Het (chet) — a rasping /kh/, as in 'Bach'; romanised ẖ

ט

Tet — /t/ as in 'top'

י

Yod (yud) — /y/ as in 'yes'; it also spells the vowels i and e

כ

Kaf — /k/ with the dagesh dot (כּ); without the dot it is khaf, /kh/ as in 'Bach'

ל

Lamed — /l/ as in 'look'

מ

Mem — /m/ as in 'moon'

נ

Nun — /n/ as in 'noon'

ס

Samekh — /s/ as in 'sun'

ע

Ayin — silent in Modern Israeli speech, like alef; romanised with a ʻ

פ

Pe — /p/ as in 'put' with the dagesh dot (פּ); without the dot it is fe, /f/

צ

Tsadi — /ts/ as in 'cats'

ק

Qof — /k/ as in 'kite'; romanised q

ר

Resh — /r/; rolled or throaty in Israeli Hebrew, not the English r

ש

Shin — /sh/ with the dot at the right (שׁ); with the dot at the left it is sin, /s/

ת

Tav — /t/ as in 'top'; the last letter of the alphabet

ך

Final kaf — כ written at the end of a word; same letter, same sound (/kh/)

ם

Final mem — מ written at the end of a word; same letter, same sound (/m/)

ן

Final nun — נ written at the end of a word; same letter, same sound (/n/)

ף

Final pe — פ written at the end of a word; same letter, same sound (/f/)

ץ

Final tsadi — צ written at the end of a word; same letter, same sound (/ts/)

The Hebrew Alphabet flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the The Hebrew Alphabet flashcard deck?

The The Hebrew Alphabet deck on PuzzlePage has 27 cards, and all 27 are free to play and free to download with no account and no payment. 27 cards — the 22 letters of the alphabet plus the 5 final forms, which is exactly the set a reader has to recognise (Abzug, James Madison Univ., builds the same 27-card set: '22 characters of the Aleph-Bet, plus five additional cards'). Nothing is added to reach a round number.

What is on the the hebrew alphabet flashcards?

All 22 Hebrew letters plus the five final (sofit) forms, with names and Modern Israeli pronunciation. The final forms are the same letters, not extra ones. Cards look like this: א → Alef — silent; it carries whatever vowel is written with it; ב → Bet — /b/ as in 'boy' with the dagesh dot (בּ); without the dot it is vet, /v/. The deck is written for grades 6–12 and filed under world languages.

Can I study the hebrew alphabet flashcards online for free?

Yes. All 27 cards of the The Hebrew Alphabet deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.

Are the the hebrew alphabet flashcards accurate?

Every card in the The Hebrew Alphabet deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.

Can I print the the hebrew alphabet flashcards?

Yes. The The Hebrew Alphabet cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The whole 27-card printable is free to download, with no account.

How should I use the The Hebrew Alphabet deck to revise?

Start in practice mode and go through the The Hebrew Alphabet deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.

What grade level are the the hebrew alphabet flashcards for?

The The Hebrew Alphabet deck is written for grades 6–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising world languages, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.