رَبّ
Rabb: Lord
The 13th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
رَبّ (rabb) means "Lord". It appears 975 times in the Quran, making it the 13th most common word: about 1.26% of all the words you read.
#13most common word
975times in the Quran
1.26%of all the words
866ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَآ
An-Nazi'at 79:44 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Fatiha 1:2.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways رَبّ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- رَبِّ81×
- رَبِّكَ81×
- رَبِّى65×
- رَبِّهِمْ59×
- رَبَّكَ52×
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.