everybody
eve·ry·body/ˈɛv.ɹiˌbɑdi/pronoun
everybody is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y, 3 syllables: eve·ry·body. The wrong spelling people search most is everbody: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Everybody is a pronoun meaning “Every individual in a set; all people”.
How many letters and syllables are in everybody?
| Letters | 9: E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: eve·ry·body |
| In writing | 69 times per million words; the 1,528th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, everbody, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How do you spell everybody?
Everybody is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for everybody 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 everybody?
Everybody appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th 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 everybody?
- UK /ˈɛv.ɹi.bɒ.di/
- US /ˈɛv.ɹiˌbɑdi/
- UK /ˈɛv.ɹiː.bə.di/
Everybody has 3 syllables, split eve·ry·body in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-everybody.ogg, En-us-everybody.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with everybody
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: every body (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of everybody
- arrybody
- e'rybody
- ever'body
- everybuddy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does everybody mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Every individual in a set; all people.
Does everybody have their ticket(s) at hand?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Everybody in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense all people:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tout le monde, chacun, tous |
| German | alle, jedermann, jeder |
| Portuguese | todos, todo mundo, toda a gente, todas |
| Spanish | todos, todo el mundo, Raimundo y todo el mundo |
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.