How to spell everyone

hear it/'ɛvri,wʌn/pronounSilent and tricky

What it means: All people; every individual.

In a sentence: Everyone enjoyed the picnic in the park.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as every one or everyonne.

Same family: everybody, everything, everywhere, everyday. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Everyone is a compound word formed from 'every' + 'one'. It became a single-word spelling in English around the 16th–17th centuries, as people started to use it more as a general pronoun meaning 'all people' rather than literally 'every single one.'

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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