Which Hebrew letters have a final form?

Five letters have a distinct final, or sofit, form: kaf (כ/ך), mem (מ/ם), nun (נ/ן), pe (פ/ף), and tsadi (צ/ץ). The other letters of the alphabet keep a single shape regardless of position.

What is the placement rule?

The final form is used only at the very end of a word, and the regular form is used in every other position. So mayim is spelled מים with a final mem, while the same letter inside a word, as in ממשלה, uses the regular mem.

What errors does the tool fix?

It fixes both directions: a regular form sitting at the end of a word is changed to its final form, and a final form appearing in the middle of a word is changed back to its regular form. Each change is listed so you can verify it.

How does it know where a word ends?

A word boundary is any character that is not a Hebrew base letter, such as a space, punctuation mark, or digit. Niqqud and cantillation marks are treated as part of the same word, so a pointed letter at the end of a word is still recognised as word-final.

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No. All correction runs in your browser and nothing you paste is sent to a server or stored.

Hebrew Final Letter Normalizer

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Hebrew has five letters whose shape depends on position: they take a special final (sofit) form at the end of a word and a regular form everywhere else. This tool detects and corrects letters written in the wrong form for their position.

How it works

The normaliser scans each letter, decides whether it stands at the end of a word, and applies the placement rule:

final forms:   ך ם ן ף ץ   (kaf mem nun pe tsadi)
regular forms: כ מ נ פ צ
rule:  letter at word end          -> final form
       letter not at word end      -> regular form
word boundary = any non-Hebrew-letter character (space, punctuation, digit)

A letter is “at word end” when the next base Hebrew letter does not exist or a non-letter follows. Niqqud (vowel points) and cantillation marks are counted as belonging to the current word, so a vocalised word-final letter is still recognised correctly.

Tips and example

שלומ is corrected to שלום because a word-final mem must be the sofit form ם, and a stray ך inside a word would be changed back to כ. This is the typical clean-up needed when text has been typed without final-form awareness or copied from a source that lost the distinction. Review the change list before copying, since proper nouns and acronyms occasionally use forms deliberately.