everything
eve·ry·thing/ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/pronoun, verb, noun
everything is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G, 3 syllables: eve·ry·thing. The wrong spelling people search most is everthing: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Everything is a pronoun meaning “All the things under discussion”.
How many letters and syllables are in everything?
| Letters | 10: E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: eve·ry·thing |
| In writing | 347 times per million words; the 263rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 8; the most searched, everthing, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 everything?
Everything is spelled E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. 8 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for everything 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 everything?
Everything appears 347 times per million words in written English, the 263rd 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 everything?
- /ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/
- /ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθiŋ/
- /ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪn/
Everything has 3 syllables, split eve·ry·thing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-everything.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of everything
- e'erything
- e'rythin'
- e'rythang
- e'rything
- ev'ryting
- ev'rythang
- ev'ythang
- ev'rything
- ev'ythin'
- ev'ything
- eve'ything
- errythin
- errything
- e'rrything
- everytin'
- everyting
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does everything mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
All the things under discussion.
I checked the list again and everything is done.
- 2
colloquialMany or most things.
A: What do you want to do at the amusement park? B: Everything!
- 3
colloquialA state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
Everything failed, didn't it?
- 4
colloquialConsiderable effort.
It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
- 5
colloquialThe most important thing.
I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!
verb
- 1
colloquialUsed as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of everything bagel.
Can I get three everythings toasted with cream cheese?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Everything in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense all the things:
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 everything come from?
Inherited from Middle English every thing; univerbation of every + thing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).