The Quran contains approximately 78,000 total words, with around 14,000–18,000 unique forms (depending on exact morphological analysis). Reliable frequency lists are often based on lemmas (base forms grouping inflections), from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.
Here are the top 50 most frequent lemmas in the Quran (sorted by frequency, with Arabic script, transliteration, part of speech, and occurrence count):
- مِن (min) — Preposition — 3226
- ٱللَّه (ʾllah) — Proper noun — 2699
- فِي (fī) — Preposition — 1701
- إِنَّ (ʾinna) — Particle — 1682
- عَلَىٰ (ʿalā) — Preposition — 1445
- ٱلَّذِي (allaḏī) — Relative pronoun — 1442
- لَا (lā) — Negative particle — 1364
- مَا (mā) — Relative/Negative pronoun — 1266 (combined)
- رَبّ (rabb) — Noun — 975
- إِلَىٰ (ʾilā) — Preposition — 742
- مَن (man) — Relative/Conditional pronoun — 606 (combined)
- إِن (ʾin) — Conditional particle — 578
- أَن (ʾan) — Subordinating conjunction — 578
- إِلَّا (ʾillā) — Restriction particle — 558
- ذَٰلِك (ḏālik) — Demonstrative pronoun — 520
- عَن (ʿan) — Preposition — 465
- أَرْض (ʾarḍ) — Noun (earth) — 461
- قَد (qad) — Particle of certainty — 406
- إِذَا (ʾiḏā) — Time adverb — 405
- قَوْم (qawm) — Noun (people) — 383
- آيَة (ʾāya) — Noun (sign/verse) — 382
- أَنَّ (ʾanna) — Particle — 362
- كُلّ (kull) — Noun (all/every) — 358
- لَم (lam) — Negative particle — 353
- ثُمَّ (ṯumma) — Conjunction (then) — 338
- رَسُول (rasūl) — Noun (messenger) — 332
- يَوْم (yawm) — Noun (day) — 325
- عَذَاب (ʿaḏāb) — Noun (punishment) — 322
- هَٰذَا (hāḏā) — Demonstrative pronoun — 317
- سَمَاء (samāʾ) — Noun (sky/heaven) — 310
- نَفْس (nafs) — Noun (soul/self) — 295
- شَيْء (šayʾ) — Noun (thing) — 283
- أَو (ʾaw) — Conjunction (or) — 280
- كِتَاب (kitāb) — Noun (book/scripture) — 260
- بَيْن (bayn) — Adverb (between) — 243
- حَقّ (ḥaqq) — Noun (truth/right) — 242
- نَاس (nās) — Noun (people) — 241
- إِذ (ʾiḏ) — Time adverb — 239
- أُولَٰئِك (ʾūlāʾika) — Demonstrative pronoun — 204
- قَبْل (qabl) — Noun (before) — 197
- مُؤْمِن (muʾmin) — Noun (believer) — 195
- سَبِيل (sabīl) — Noun (way/path) — 176
- أَمْر (ʾamr) — Noun (matter/command) — 166
- عِنْد (ʿind) — Adverb (with/at) — 160
- مَع (maʿ) — Adverb (with) — 159
- بَعْض (baʿḍ) — Noun (some/part) — 157
- خَيْر (ḵayr) — Noun (good/better) — 148
- إِلَٰه (ʾilāh) — Noun (god) — 147
- نَار (nār) — Noun (fire) — 145
- غَيْر (ḡayr) — Noun (other than) — 144
These high-frequency words (mostly particles, prepositions, pronouns, and core nouns) cover a significant portion of the text—learning the top few hundred can help understand much of the Quran. For a fuller list up to 1500 or more, reliable resources include the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com) or downloadable spreadsheets from sites like Fluent Arabic.
