رَسُول
Rasūl: messenger
The 35th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
رَسُول (rasūl) means "messenger". It appears 332 times in the Quran, making it the 35th most common word: about 0.43% of all the words you read.
#35most common word
332times in the Quran
0.43%of all the words
292ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ
At-Takwir 81:19 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:87.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways رَسُول is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- وَرَسُولَهُۥ23×
- وَرَسُولِهِۦ21×
- رَسُولٌ18×
- رَسُولًا17×
- ٱلرَّسُولَ17×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
Related words from the same root
رَسُول comes from the root ر س ل. Other common words from this root: أَرْسَلَ (to send).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.