Every body or everybody?
every body is a pronoun meaning “the words every and body, each in its own sense”; everybody is a pronoun meaning “Every individual in a set; all people”. every body is written as two words and everybody as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between every body and everybody?
| every body | everybody | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | pronoun | pronoun |
| Meaning | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body | Every individual in a set; all people |
| Example | none recorded | Does everybody have their ticket(s) at hand? |
| Forms | none | arrybody, e'rybody, ever'body, everybuddy |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈɛv.ɹi.bɒ.di/ /ˈɛv.ɹiˌbɑdi/ /ˈɛv.ɹiː.bə.di/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 69 times per million words |
Sources: every body and everybody 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 every body and everybody
every body
- 1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body
everybody
- 1
Every individual in a set; all people
Does everybody have their ticket(s) at hand?
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, every body or everybody?
every body is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; everybody 69 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 every body vs everybody?
“every body vs everybody” is searched about 40 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“everybody vs every body”, “every body or everybody”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.