kollel
/koʊˈlɛl/noun
kollel is a noun meaning “An institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L-L-E-L, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kollel is kollels or kollelim.
What does kollel mean?
noun
- 1
An institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kollel?
- /koʊˈlɛl/
- /ˈkoʊlɛl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kollel
- kollels plural
- kollelim plural
- kolel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kollel?
Kollel appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Where does kollel come from?
Borrowed from Hebrew כולל (“collective, community”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).