قَوْم
Qawm: people, nation
The 27th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
قَوْم (qawm) means "people, nation". It appears 383 times in the Quran, making it the 27th most common word: about 0.49% of all the words you read.
#27most common word
383times in the Quran
0.49%of all the words
347ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّنكَرُونَ
Al-Hijr 15:62 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:54.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways قَوْم is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- يَٰقَوْمِ38×
- لِّقَوْمٍ36×
- قَوْمًا35×
- ٱلْقَوْمِ31×
- ٱلْقَوْمَ26×
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
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.