ٱللَّه
Allāh: Allah
The 2nd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ٱللَّه (Allāh) means "Allah". It appears 2,699 times in the Quran, making it the 2nd most common word: about 3.49% of all the words you read.
#2most common word
2,699times in the Quran
3.49%of all the words
1,821ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ
Al-Ikhlas 112:2 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Fatiha 1:1.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ٱللَّه is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ٱللَّهِ828×
- ٱللَّهُ733×
- ٱللَّهَ592×
- وَٱللَّهُ239×
- بِٱللَّهِ139×
The count includes every form of the name, including with small words like "for" or "and" attached.
Related words from the same root
ٱللَّه comes from the root أ ل ه. Other common words from this root: إِلَٰه (god).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.