مِنْ
Min: from, of
The 1st most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
مِنْ (min) means "from, of". It appears 3,226 times in the Quran, making it the 1st most common word: about 4.17% of all the words you read.
#1most common word
3,226times in the Quran
4.17%of all the words
2,230ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَمِزَاجُهُۥ مِن تَسْنِيمٍ
Al-Mutaffifin 83:27 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:3.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways مِنْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- مِن728×
- مِنَ412×
- مِّن372×
- مِّنَ281×
- مِنْ253×
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.