everybody and his mother
"everybody-and-his-mother" is a 21-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“everybody and his mother” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of everybody and his brother.
Corpus desk
Index EN-everybody-and-his-mother · everybody and his mother · English
everybody and his mother · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 24 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | everybody and his mother |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “everybody and his mother” in English
Rare enough to double-check
everybody and his mother is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of everybody and his brother.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for everybody and his mother, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is everybody and his mother, spelled E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y- -A-N-D- -H-I-S- -M-O-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Synonym of everybody and his brother.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how everybody and his mother appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On Thursday the same remark would have applied equally to Tokomairiro; everybody and his mother seemed to be paying us a visit.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.