Any one or anyone?
any one is a pronoun meaning “the words any and one, each in its own sense”; anyone is a pronoun meaning “Any person; anybody”. any one is written as two words and anyone as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between any one and anyone?
| any one | anyone | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | pronoun | pronoun |
| Meaning | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, one | Any person; anybody |
| Example | You can borrow any one book at a time | Almost anyone can change a light bulb |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/ /ˈæ.niˌwʌn/ /ˈɛ.ni.wʌn/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 240 times per million words |
Sources: any one and anyone in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of any one and anyone
any one
- 1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, one
You can borrow any one book at a time
anyone
- 1
Any person; anybody
Almost anyone can change a light bulb
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, any one or anyone?
any one is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; anyone 240 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search any one vs anyone?
“any one vs anyone” is searched about 320 times a month on Google and 40 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“anyone vs any one”, “any one or anyone”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.