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kehillah

noun

kehillah is spelled K-E-H-I-L-L-A-H: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kehillah means “A type of Jewish community in eastern Europe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kehillah is kehillahs or kehillot.

How many letters and syllables are in kehillah?

Letters8: K-E-H-I-L-L-A-H
In writingabout once in every 78 million words; the 279,513th 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 kehillah?

Kehillah appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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 kehillah

  • kehillahs plural
  • kehillot plural
  • kehilloth plural
  • kehila
  • kehilah
  • kehilla

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

What does kehillah mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A type of Jewish community in eastern Europe.

  2. 2

    Any Jewish community; especially, a secular Jewish communal organization, or the secular dimension of a religious one.

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

Where does kehillah come from?

Borrowed from Hebrew קְהִילָּה (qəhîllâ, “a community, a congregation”).

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

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