كُلّ

Kull: every, all

The 31st most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026

Short answer

كُلّ (kull) means "every, all". It appears 359 times in the Quran, making it the 31st most common word: about 0.46% of all the words you read.

#31most common word
359times in the Quran
0.46%of all the words
341ayahs it appears in

Example from the Quran

وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَٰهُ كِتَٰبًا

An-Naba 78:29 · Read the translation on Quran.com

It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:20.

How it appears in the Quran

The most common ways كُلّ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:

  • كُلِّ123×
  • كُلَّ49×
  • كُلُّ47×
  • بِكُلِّ33×
  • كُلٌّ22×

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

  1. Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.