لَا
Lā: no, not
The 4th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
لَا (lā) means "no, not". It appears 1,742 times in the Quran, making it the 4th most common word: about 2.25% of all the words you read.
#4most common word
1,742times in the Quran
2.25%of all the words
1,286ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلْخُنَّسِ
At-Takwir 81:15 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Fatiha 1:7.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways لَا is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- لَا616×
- وَلَا605×
- فَلَا145×
- لَّا133×
- وَلَآ53×
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.