Type Hebrew with vowels (niqqud) online

At a glance: Hebrew Keyboard

• Keyboard: Hebrew Keyboard (מקלדת עברית), Hebrew script, Israel.
• Direction right to left; 34 keys and 66 characters across all layers.
• Engine: 37 transliteration rules — the examples below come straight from it.
• This guide: 4 method steps and 4 answered questions.
• Typefaces: Frank Ruhl Libre, Noto Sans Hebrew, David.
• Search and export: Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Translate, DuckDuckGo.

Common mistakes to avoid

Nine times out of ten, a Hebrew Keyboard problem is one of these — each takes five seconds to fix. Work through them in order before assuming the keyboard is broken.

• Nothing converts, not even « shalom » → « שלום »: check that Transliteration mode (not the physical keyboard) is on, and that you type plain lowercase Latin letters.
• Text looks reversed after paste: paste without formatting (Ctrl+Shift+V) to keep the right to left order intact.
• Unexpected layout: the Nikud variant changes the keys — switch back to the standard variant if anything surprises you.
• Clusters split after paste (Arabic, Indic and Southeast Asian scripts): paste into this editor first and re-copy — it normalizes the Unicode shaping that Word and chats sometimes break.

Try these conversions now

Copy each left-hand transcription into the keyboard linked above and confirm the script on the right. Six quick wins that calibrate your fingers to the engine.

• Type “shalom” → get שלום.
• Type “boker” → get בוקר.
• Type “erez” → get ארץ.
• Type “yisrael” → get ישראל.
• Type “erushalayim” → get ירושלים.
• Type “toda” → get תודה.

The exact rules behind the examples

The walkthrough above uses a handful of conversions. Here is the complete engine behind this guide — all 37 mappings of the Hebrew Keyboard, longest match first. Find the transcription you need, then try it live in the keyboard linked at the top of this page.

More questions about this keyboard

• Can I type Hebrew niqqud? — Yes, niqqud marks are available on the Shift layer of the keyboard.
• How do I write without vowels? — By default the keyboard produces unvocalized modern Hebrew; add niqqud only when needed.
• Is text right-to-left? — Yes, the editor switches to RTL automatically for Hebrew, Arabic and Persian.
• How do I type the final forms (ך ם ן ף ץ)? — They are on the virtual keyboard; in phonetic mode type the letter at word end (e.g. “k” → ך).

Neighbouring keyboards

The same method often applies to neighbouring languages. Each of these has its own full keyboard page with virtual keys, engine and dictionaries.

• Arabic Keyboard: Type Arabic with smart transliteration: “marhaba” becomes مرحبا as you type. Click the virtual keys or use your own keyboard.…
• Persian (Farsi) Keyboard: Clavier persan en ligne : écrivez en farsi (فارسی) avec translittération phonétique instantanée.…
• Urdu Keyboard: Clavier ourdou en ligne : tapez اردو avec un clavier virtuel complet et translittération phonétique.…
• Amharic Keyboard: Clavier amharique (Ge'ez) en ligne : écrivez አማርኛ avec le fidèle éthiopien et translittération phonétique.…
• Syriac Keyboard: Clavier syriaque (aramaïque) en ligne pour écrire ܣܘܪܝܬ sans installation.…
• Yiddish Keyboard: Clavier yiddish en ligne : écrivez ייִדיש avec translittération (sholem → שלום, ey → ײ).…

All method guides

Twelve guides cover the most requested scripts. Pick yours — every guide embeds its keyboard, so you can practise each step immediately.

• Type Arabic without an Arabic keyboard: complete guide: Type “marhaba” and get مرحبا: transliteration, harakat, copy-paste and virtual keyboard.…
• Type Russian on a French/English keyboard: easy method: “privet” becomes привет: JCUKEN transliteration, Ё key and Russian physical layout.…
• Type Chinese with pinyin: how-to: Type “ni hao” and pick 你好: tones, simplified/traditional and pinyin keyboard.…
• Type Japanese: romaji → hiragana, katakana, kanji: “konnichiwa” → こんにちは: romaji engine, kana keyboard and vocabulary resources.…
• Type Korean (Hangul): automatic composition: “annyeong” → 안녕: jamos combine into syllables in real time.…
• Type Hindi (Devanagari): transliteration guide: “namaste” → नमस्ते: matras, conjuncts and Devanagari keyboard.…
• Type Vietnamese: Telex, VNI and tones: “xin chao” + s → xin chào: Telex, VNI modes and Vietnamese keyboard.…
• Type Greek: modern and polytonic: “kalimera” → καλημέρα: transliteration, tonos and Greek keyboard.…
• Spanish, German, Italian accents without a local keyboard: “como estas” → ¿Cómo estás?, “gruesse” → grüße: accent autocorrection.…
• Arabic, Persian, Urdu: which keyboard to choose?: Same script family, 3 languages: letter differences (پ چ ژ گ), digits and usage.…
• Online dictionaries by language: the Lexilogos-like hub: Each keyboard embeds its hub: monolingual, bilingual, grammar, press and resources.…