# Hebron

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #27,868

## Definitions
1. A city in the West Bank, Palestine; holy in both Judaism and Islam.
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## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Hebrōn, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew חֶבְרוֹן (Ḥeḇrōn), possibly via Ancient Greek Χεβρών (Khebrṓn).

## Easily confused with
- **hero** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-hero)
- **Huron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-huron)
- **heron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-heron)
- **Herod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-herod)
- **heroin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-heroin)
- **Henson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-henson)
- **Hobson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-hobson)
- **Heston** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebron-vs-heston)
- **hearn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hearn-vs-hebron)
- **Hebrew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hebrew-vs-hebron)
- **Heaton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaton-vs-hebron)
- **hadron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hadron-vs-hebron)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ehbron`, `hberon`, `hebbron`, `heborn`, `hebrno`, `hebronn`, `hebrron`, `herbon`, `hhebron`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hebron