ءَايَة
Āyah: sign, verse
The 29th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ءَايَة (āyah) means "sign, verse". It appears 382 times in the Quran, making it the 29th most common word: about 0.49% of all the words you read.
#29most common word
382times in the Quran
0.49%of all the words
353ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا كِذَّابًا
An-Naba 78:28 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:39.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ءَايَة is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا41×
- بِـَٔايَٰتِ34×
- لَءَايَٰتٍ29×
- ٱلْءَايَٰتِ28×
- ءَايَةً22×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
Related words from the same root
ءَايَة comes from the root أ ي ي. Other common words from this root: أَيّ (which, any).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.