everyone and their dog
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | everyone and their dog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “everyone and their dog” in English
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
- 1Synonym of everybody and his brother.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how everyone and their dog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."
Synonyms
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.