رَأَىٰ

Raʾā: to see

The 46th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026

Short answer

رَأَىٰ (raʾā) means "to see". It appears 271 times in the Quran, making it the 46th most common word: about 0.35% of all the words you read.

#46most common word
271times in the Quran
0.35%of all the words
253ayahs it appears in

Example from the Quran

لَتَرَوُنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ

At-Takathur 102:6 · Read the translation on Quran.com

It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:55.

How it appears in the Quran

The most common ways رَأَىٰ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:

  • تَرَ31×
  • يَرَوْا۟24×
  • أَرَءَيْتُمْ12×
  • وَتَرَى10×
  • يَرَوْنَ8×

Verbs are listed by their past-tense "he" form, as in Arabic dictionaries. The count includes every form of the verb, such as "he says", "they said" and "say!".

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Sources

  1. Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.