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How to spell anybody

Anybody is spelled A-N-Y-B-O-D-Y.

What it means: Any person or individual.

In a sentence: Does anybody want to play a game with me? ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: anyone, anything, anywhere, somebody, everybody. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Anybody” comes from joining the words “any” and “body,” and it has been used in English since the 14th–15th century to mean “any person.” Over time, it became a single word in most modern writing, especially in American English.

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