Most differently worded verses
The 20 verses whose cleared English translations share the fewest words with each other, out of 6,236 scored.
This is a measure of wording, not of meaning. It counts how much vocabulary the renderings hold in common and nothing else: it does not locate where inside a verse they part company, does not weigh one difference against another, and does not say which rendering is better. Where a verse appears here, the two furthest-apart renderings are quoted in full under their translators' names.
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77:2 Al-Mursalaat Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.97. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Storming turbulently.
And by those who speed swiftly
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42:2 Ash-Shura Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.96. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Ayn, Seen, Qaf.
’H. S. Q.
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80:9 Abasa Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.95. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.In awe.
fearing the while
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82:11 Al-Infitaar Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.95. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Honest recorders.
noble, writing down
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23:67 Al-Muminoon Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.93. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Arrogant towards it-talked nonsense about it-disregarded it.
In scorn thereof. Nightly did ye rave together
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68:13 Al-Qalam Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.92. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Rude and fake besides.
Greedy therewithal, intrusive
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52:3 At-Tur Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.91. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.In a published scroll.
upon an outstretched vellum
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70:22 Al-Ma'aarij Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.91. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Except the prayerful.
all save those who pray
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56:3 Al-Waaqia Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.91. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Bringing low, raising high.
abasing - exalting
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77:4 Al-Mursalaat Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.91. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Separating decisively.
And by the separators apart
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68:18 Al-Qalam Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Without any reservation.
But they made not the exception
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55:48 Ar-Rahmaan Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Full of varieties.
Both furnished with branching trees
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53:61 An-Najm Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Lost in your frivolity?
and ye divert yourselves the while
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20:119 Taa-Haa Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Nor will you be thirsty in it, nor will you swelter."
see v
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84:22 Al-Inshiqaaq Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.In fact, those who disbelieve are in denial.
Yea, the unbelievers treat it as a lie
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78:26 An-Naba Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.A fitting requital.
Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds)
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56:19 Al-Waaqia Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.96.Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness
Their heads shall not ache by drinking the same, neither shall their reason be disturbed
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69:23 Al-Haaqqa Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Its pickings are within reach.
Whose clusters shall be near at hand
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70:1 Al-Ma'aarij Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.An asker asked for torment that must befall
A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall
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80:12 Abasa Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Whoever wills, shall remember it.
Verily the Koran is an admonition; -- and he who is willing retaineth the same
Analysis detailsDerived
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
- The cut
- 0.644
- Share of measured verses above it
- 33%
- Verses above it
- 2,079
- Verses measured
- 6,236
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
- Method
- Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
- As at
- 13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC