each
/it͡ʃ/determiner, adverb, pronoun, noun
each is spelled E-A-C-H. The wrong spelling people search most is eahc: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Each is a determiner meaning “All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or…”.
How many letters and syllables are in each?
| Letters | 4: E-A-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 490 times per million words; the 194th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, eahc, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell each?
Each is spelled E-A-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 73 of the searches for each in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is each?
Each appears 490 times per million words in written English, the 194th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce each?
- UK /iːt͡ʃ/
- British /ɪjt͡ʃ/
- US /it͡ʃ/
Each has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-each.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with each?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as each from its last stressed vowel (/itʃ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ache, hace.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of each
- aich
- aitch
- eache
- eatch
- eatche
- ech
- eche
- eich
- etch
- eych
- eyche
- yeach
- eaches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does each mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
Make sure you wash each bowl well.
adverb
- 1
For one; apiece; per.
The apples cost 50 cents each.
- 2
Individually; separately; used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or state described by the verb applies to all members of the described group individually, rather than collectively to the entire group.
We ordered half a chicken each, but we each got a whole one.
pronoun
- 1
Every one/thing individually or one by one.
I'm going to give each of you a chance to win.
noun
- 1
An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate each?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of each: ea..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Each in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chaque , chacun |
| German | alle, jeder , jeweils |
| Portuguese | cada |
| Spanish | cada, cada uno, sendos , cada una |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does each come from?
From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike. Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).