each

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The English entry for each is 4 letters long, classified as adet, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iːt͡ʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #191 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for each, with forms such as "aech", "eacch", and "eachh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eh", "eat", "ear", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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, elli… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is each, spelled E-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.