Root

ل-ي-س

lys·l-y-s

89 occurrences85 verses1 form

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
لَيْسَlaysa89

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ل-ي-س more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ل-ي-س falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-ي-س occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 74 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 44 pages — pages 289332, juzʾ 1517.

Occurrences · 89 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ل-ي-س appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-ي-س (lys) occurs 89 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 85 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ل-ي-س occur?

85 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-ي-س (lys), out of 89 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-ي-س?

ل-ي-س (lys) yields 1 distinct derived form in the Qurʾān, most frequently لَيْسَ (laysa, 89×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.