every
ev·ery/ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/determiner
every is spelled E-V-E-R-Y, 2 syllables: ev·ery. The wrong spelling people search most is eveyr: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 145 of all searches for the word. Every is a determiner meaning “All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception”.
How many letters and syllables are in every?
| Letters | 5: E-V-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ev·ery |
| In writing | 617 times per million words; the 160th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, eveyr, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 every?
Every is spelled E-V-E-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 145 of the searches for every 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 every?
Every appears 617 times per million words in written English, the 160th 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 every?
- US /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
- Australia /ˈev.(ə.)ɹi/
Every has 2 syllables, split ev·ery in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-every.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with every?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as every (/ɛvɹi/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: veery.
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 every
- ev'ry
- e'ry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does every mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
Every person in the room stood and cheered.
- 2
Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
We stopped for refreshments every ten miles.
- 3
Denotes an abundance of something.
We wish you every happiness in the future.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Every in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense all of a countable group:
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.