All Different Ways To Spell Hanukkah

Chanukah channukah hanukah hannukkah hanuka the judges looked puzzled.

All different ways to spell hanukkah. Then they began to argue. It is read as chanukah but some people cannot properly pronounce the ch sound and say hanukkah. There s really no wrong way to spell hanukkah.

There are other spellings including hanukka hanukkah and chanuka which all derive from the romanization of the original hebrew word חנוכה. Each one of the children wrote a different spelling. Here are some of the most popular spellings of the word.

The most common in english are hanukkah or chanukah hanukkah is celebrated. So in some countries the translation is a hard k and others it is silent. You can add as many n s and h s and and any other letter that will help you to transliterate it.

According to google there are several different ways in which hanukkah is spelled and several ways in which people search for it online. Since hanukkah is transliterated from hebrew letters there are many different ways to spell the name of the holiday. The term has over 26 7 million hits on google way more than the other variations combined and it s the primary spelling used by merriam webster.

Might as well get creative. As little as about five years ago the top spelling choice on the internet was chanukah. But chanukah is more traditional.