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everyday

/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/adjective, noun

everyday is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-D-A-Y: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “every-day vs everyday” about 230 times a month (Bing, United States). As an adjective, everyday means “Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in everyday?

Letters8: E-V-E-R-Y-D-A-Y
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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).

How common is everyday?

Everyday appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 everyday?

  • /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/

Everyday has 3 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-everyday.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with everyday

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

every-day vs everyday230 B

Also written: every-day (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of everyday

  • every day's

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does everyday mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.

  2. 2

    Commonplace, ordinary.

    Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

  3. 3

    Present or recurring every day.

  4. 4

    rareCommonplace or ordinary during daytime.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteLiterally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.

  2. 2

    rareThe ordinary or routine day or occasion.

    Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Everyday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAlltags-, alltäglich (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for…), gemein, Allerwelts- (commonplace, ordinary)
Portuguesecotidiano (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for…), comum, ordinário (commonplace, ordinary)
Spanishde diario, cuotidiano (appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for…), común (commonplace, ordinary)
Frenchusuel (commonplace, ordinary)

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 everyday come from?

From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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