ٱلَّذِي
Also: ٱلَّذِينَ
Alladhī: who, which, the one(s) who
The 8th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ٱلَّذِي (alladhī, alladhīna) means "who, which, the one(s) who". It appears 1,468 times in the Quran, making it the 8th most common word: about 1.9% of all the words you read.
#8most common word
1,468times in the Quran
1.9%of all the words
1,245ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
Al-A'la 87:2 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Fatiha 1:7.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ٱلَّذِي is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ٱلَّذِينَ810×
- ٱلَّذِى216×
- وَٱلَّذِينَ163×
- ٱلَّذِىٓ52×
- لِلَّذِينَ50×
This count includes the word on its own and when it is the main part of a short word, such as لَهُ (for him). It does not count endings attached to other words.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.