How many times is it in the Quran?
Type a word and watch it scanned through all 114 surahs: every verse is a dot, every verse with your word lights up. See the count, the surahs it is in and each verse in Arabic and English, with the counting rule beside the number.
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114 surahs
6,236 verses
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Each has its own page with the rule used, the related words and every verse. The number is the count in the Arabic.
How the counting works
In English, the search looks for whole words in Pickthall‘s translation. With word forms on, pray also finds prays, prayed, praying, prayer and Pickthall‘s old prayeth. Irregular forms need their own search: woman does not find women. Words in brackets are Pickthall‘s own explanations, such as “(O Muhammad)”, so they are not counted.
In Arabic, vowel marks are ignored and every alef with hamza or madda counts as a plain alef. Arabic joins small words to the front of the next one: wa (and), fa (so), bi (with), li (for), ka (like) and al (the). Word with joined letters counts those too, so موسى also finds وموسى. Exact word counts only the form you typed. Contains finds the letters anywhere in a word, which catches endings such as صلاتهم (their prayer) but can also catch a different word that happens to share the letters.
So an English count tells you about a translation, and an Arabic count depends on which forms you include. Neither is “the” number. The rule is always printed next to the count, so you can repeat it or argue with it.
How many words are in the Quran?
By this text, 77,800 words: every group of letters between two spaces in the Tanzil Simple Clean text, with the basmala above each surah left out and the one in Al-Fatiha counted. That text writes ya (O), as in ya ayyuha, apart from the next word 350 times. Join it to the next word and the count is 77,450. Tanzil's Uthmani text, the script of the printed mushaf, has 77,433 by the same rule. You will also see 77,430, 77,437 or 77,449: each is right for its own text and its own idea of what one word is.
The text we search
Arabic: the Tanzil Quran Text, Simple Clean, in the Hafs reading, from tanzil.net. It is carefully checked by the Tanzil Project and copied here verbatim, as their terms ask. It has no vowel marks, which makes it easy to search. 6,236 verses in 114 surahs, the Kufan count used in most printed mushafs.
English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, first published in 1930. Pickthall died in 1936, so his translation is in the public domain in countries where copyright ends 70 years after the author‘s death, and in the United States, where books from 1930 entered the public domain in 2026. The text is from Project Gutenberg eBook #16955, which was proofread against the printed translations. A few verse numbers are misprinted in that file, so we read the verses in order and checked them against the verse count of every surah. We did not use other online copies of Pickthall: some have “God” changed to “Allah” in places where he wrote God.
Meccan and Medinan surahs follow the Tanzil list. Scholars differ on a few, such as Ar-Ra‘d, Ar-Rahman, Al-Insan and Az-Zalzalah.
Reading the Quran
Want to read it all? The Quran khatam planner tells you how many pages a day. Starting with the prayer? Learn Al-Fatiha and the short surahs by heart, then pray along step by step. Looking for a name from the Quran? See Muslim names.
Sources
Arabic: Tanzil Quran Text (Simple Clean, Hafs), copied verbatim under its terms. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, from Project Gutenberg eBook #16955.
Questions about counting words in the Quran
Is the number exact?
It is exact for the rule shown next to it, and the rule is always shown. A word in the Quran comes in many forms: with "and" or "the" joined to it, with endings for his, their or plural, and as a verb or a noun. Counting only one form gives a small number, counting the whole root gives a big one. Both are honest if you say which. In English the number also depends on the translation, because translators use different words for the same Arabic word.
Why do other sites give different numbers?
Mostly because they count different forms, or count in a translation, and do not say which. A count in English is a count of one translator's choices. Before you share a number, check the rule behind it. This page shows the rule and every verse, so you can check it yourself.
How many words are in the Quran?
77,800 in the Tanzil Simple Clean text, counting every group of letters between two spaces, with the basmala above each surah left out (it is counted once, as the first verse of Al-Fatiha). That text writes ya (O) as its own word 350 times; join it to the next word and you get 77,450. Counted the same way in Tanzil's Uthmani text, the script of the printed mushaf, it is 77,433, the number on our Every word of the prayer page. Other numbers you will see, such as 77,430, come from other texts or other rules for what one word is.
How many times is Allah mentioned in the Quran?
2,689 times, counting the word Allah (الله) also with wa, fa, bi or li joined to it (wallahi, billahi, lillahi), the basmala above each surah left out. Not in that number: tallahi, "by Allah" (8 times), and Allahumma, "O Allah" (5 times). Other counts you will see, such as 2,699, use other rules.
Which English translation is this?
Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, first published in 1930. Pickthall was an English Muslim and his translation is still read. It is in the public domain, which is why we can show all of it. His English is old (thee, hath, worship for salah), so search the way he writes: pray, not salah.
Do I need an Arabic keyboard?
To search the Arabic, yes, or copy a word from a verse on this page. Vowel marks do not matter: إبراهيم, ابراهيم and إِبْرَاهِيمَ find the same thing. The popular searches below already have the Arabic filled in.
Is what I type sent anywhere?
No. The whole Quran text loads into your browser once and the search runs there. What you type is not sent to us or stored.