The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters with the following additions:
Letters 20, 40, 50, 80, 90 have a special form at the end of a word.
Letters 6 and 10 form two digraphs for ‹w› and ‹y› in plene spelling.
Letters with a prime or apostrophe (gereš) represent Arabic letters.

Several letters are pronounced identically:
[’]   א,‎ ע
[t]   ט,‎ ת,‎ תּ
[s]   ס,‎ שׂ
[v]   ב,‎ ו,‎ װ
[x]   כ,‎ ח,‎ ח׳
[k]   כּ,‎ ק