إِنَّ
Inna: indeed, truly
The 6th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
إِنَّ (inna) means "indeed, truly". It appears 1,682 times in the Quran, making it the 6th most common word: about 2.17% of all the words you read.
#6most common word
1,682times in the Quran
2.17%of all the words
1,503ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا
An-Naba 78:31 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:6.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways إِنَّ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- إِنَّ608×
- إِنَّهُۥ141×
- إِنَّا115×
- إِنَّمَا85×
- إِنِّى81×
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.