: Widely regarded as the gold standard for serious learners, the Frequency Dictionary of Arabic

: A digital transcription of the 5,000 most used words from the Routledge dictionary, stripped of dialect and updated with masdars (verbal nouns). This can be accessed via Quizlet folders.

| Rank | Arabic | Translit | English | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | في | fi | in/at | | 2 | من | min | from/of | | 3 | على | 'ala | on/upon | | 4 | و | wa | and | | 5 | إلى | ila | to/towards | | 6 | أن | an/anna | that | | 7 | كان | kaana | was (to be) | | 8 | ل | li | for/to | | 9 | قال | qaala | said | | 10 | هذا | haadha | this |