everyone
every·one/ˈɛv.ɹiː.wʌn/pronoun
everyone is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E, 2 syllables: every·one. The wrong spelling people search most is everone: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Everyone is a pronoun meaning “Every individual in a set; every person”.
How many letters and syllables are in everyone?
| Letters | 8: E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: every·one |
| In writing | 295 times per million words; the 322nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, everone, about 40 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 everyone?
Everyone is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for everyone 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 everyone?
Everyone appears 295 times per million words in written English, the 322nd 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 everyone?
- /ˈɛv.ɹiː.wʌn/
- /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
Everyone has 2 syllables, split every·one in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-everyone.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with everyone
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: every one (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of everyone
- arrywun
- e'eryone
- e'ryone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does everyone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Every individual in a set; every person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate everyone?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of everyone: E.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Everyone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense every person:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chacun, tout le monde, tous |
| German | alle, jedermann, jeder |
| Portuguese | todos, todo mundo, toda a gente |
| Spanish | todos, todo el mundo, todo quisqui |
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 everyone come from?
An alteration of earlier everychone after every, from Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).