يَوْم
Yawm: day
The 22nd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
يَوْم (yawm) means "day". It appears 475 times in the Quran, making it the 22nd most common word: about 0.61% of all the words you read.
#22most common word
475times in the Quran
0.61%of all the words
437ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
لِيَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ
Al-Mutaffifin 83:5 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Fatiha 1:4.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways يَوْم is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- يَوْمَ133×
- يَوْمَئِذٍ59×
- وَيَوْمَ44×
- ٱلْيَوْمَ38×
- يَوْمِ31×
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.