فِي
Fī: in
The 5th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
فِي (fī) means "in". It appears 1,701 times in the Quran, making it the 5th most common word: about 2.2% of all the words you read.
#5most common word
1,701times in the Quran
2.2%of all the words
1,364ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
لَّٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًا
An-Naba 78:23 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:2.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways فِي is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- فِى1,098×
- فِيهَا212×
- فِيهِ126×
- فِىٓ86×
- فِيهَآ29×
Small words like this are among the most frequent in the Quran. The count includes every time it appears, including with "and" or "so" 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.