أَرْض
Arḍ: earth, land
The 24th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
أَرْض (arḍ) means "earth, land". It appears 461 times in the Quran, making it the 24th most common word: about 0.6% of all the words you read.
#24most common word
461times in the Quran
0.6%of all the words
440ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ
Al-Inshiqaq 84:3 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:11.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways أَرْض is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ٱلْأَرْضِ219×
- وَٱلْأَرْضِ108×
- ٱلْأَرْضَ45×
- وَٱلْأَرْضَ41×
- ٱلْأَرْضُ23×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.