إِلَىٰ
Ilā: to, towards
The 16th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
إِلَىٰ (ilā) means "to, towards". It appears 742 times in the Quran, making it the 16th most common word: about 0.96% of all the words you read.
#16most common word
742times in the Quran
0.96%of all the words
653ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَآ
An-Nazi'at 79:44 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:4.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways إِلَىٰ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- إِلَىٰ211×
- إِلَى140×
- إِلَيْهِ76×
- إِلَيْكَ74×
- إِلَىٰٓ54×
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.