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heder

noun

heder is spelled H-E-D-E-R: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, heder means “An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of heder is heders or hederim.

How many letters and syllables are in heder?

Letters5: H-E-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is heder?

Heder appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of heder

  • heders plural
  • hederim plural
  • hadarim plural
  • hedarim plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does heder mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does heder come from?

From Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder, “room”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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