everyone and their dog

pron

"everyone-and-their-dog" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“everyone and their dog” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
22
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of everybody and his brother.

Corpus desk

Index EN-everyone-and-their-dog · everyone and their dog · English

everyone and their dog · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 22 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.

Key facts for everyone and their dog
PropertyValue
Headwordeveryone and their dog
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechPronoun
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “everyone and their dog” in English

everyone and their dogsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

everyone and their dog is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of everybody and his brother.".

No misspelling variants are generated for everyone and their dog in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is everyone and their dog, spelled E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E- -A-N-D- -T-H-E-I-R- -D-O-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of everybody and his brother.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how everyone and their dog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."

Synonyms

list in everybody and his brothereverybodythe whole world and his dog

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "everyone and their dog"?
"everyone and their dog" is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E- -A-N-D- -T-H-E-I-R- -D-O-G.
What does "everyone and their dog" mean?
As a pronoun, "everyone and their dog" means: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
What language does "everyone and their dog" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list