roni5604/hebrew-words

Hebrew Words — public-domain Hebrew word list · מאגר מילים בעברית

67,000+ Modern Hebrew words — including noun plurals, verb conjugations and adjective forms — released under CC0 1.0 (public domain). No niqqud, no definitions, just words.

This is a mirror of github.com/roni5604/hebrew-words-db, synced automatically on every update. Issues and contributions go to GitHub.

Load it

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("roni5604/hebrew-words", split="train")
words = set(ds["word"])
print(len(words), "שלום" in words)

Or without datasets:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/roni5604/hebrew-words/data/words.csv")

Fields

Column	Type	Description
word	string	A Hebrew word (letters U+05D0–U+05EA only, no niqqud)
length	int	Number of letters

Plain-text (data/words.txt) and JSON (data/words.json) versions are included in the repo too.

Why

Nearly every other comprehensive Hebrew word list is AGPL (Hspell, hebrew_wordlists), non-commercial (DICTA, CC BY-NC) or share-alike (Wiktionary). This dataset is CC0, so it can be used in commercial products, closed-source apps and model training with no attribution requirement.

Uses

Spellcheck and autocomplete, Hebrew word games (Wordle, Boggle, Scrabble, crosswords), vocabulary coverage tests for LLMs and tokenizers, filtering non-words in generated text, education apps.

Limitations

• A which-words-exist list: no definitions, part-of-speech tags, frequencies or proper names.
• Not exhaustive — Hebrew morphology yields millions of valid forms. Coverage focuses on common Modern Hebrew and regular inflections, and grows over time.
• Compiled with AI assistance and validated by script; occasional errors are possible. Please report them on GitHub.
• Loanwords are stored without geresh (ג'וק → גוק).

Citation

@misc{michaeli_hebrew_words_db,
  author       = {Michaeli, Roni},
  title        = {hebrew-words-db: A public-domain list of Hebrew words},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/roni5604/hebrew-words-db}},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23442852},
  note         = {CC0-1.0}
}