مَنْ
Man: who, whoever
The 15th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
مَنْ (man) means "who, whoever". It appears 871 times in the Quran, making it the 15th most common word: about 1.12% of all the words you read.
#15most common word
871times in the Quran
1.12%of all the words
692ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ
An-Nazi'at 79:37 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:8.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways مَنْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- مَن223×
- وَمَن187×
- مَنْ73×
- فَمَن51×
- مَّن49×
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.