قَدْ
Qad: indeed, already
The 26th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
قَدْ (qad) means "indeed, already". It appears 406 times in the Quran, making it the 26th most common word: about 0.52% of all the words you read.
#26most common word
406times in the Quran
0.52%of all the words
388ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْمُبِينِ
At-Takwir 81:23 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:60.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways قَدْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- وَلَقَدْ122×
- قَدْ119×
- فَقَدْ50×
- وَقَدْ40×
- لَقَدْ35×
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.