Every time is it one word

The difference is that «everytime» is not a word, and «every time» means all occurrences: «Every time I go to the beach, I get a sunburn.»

You may be thinking of the difference between «everyday» and «every day.» The former is an adjective that can mean either daily or ordinary and common, and the latter is an adverb meaning each day: «I don’t have any fancy clothes. I wear everyday clothes every day.»

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So far only one British dictionary besides Wiktionary lists the one-word form bathtime, and a few others list a hyphenated form. It would seem reasonable when compared to bedtime, which is one word, but dictionaries just do not list it.

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The general rule of thumb for most words like this is: When one word complements the other and both are only one syllable, they can be properly spelled as one word, classtime—very much similar to classmate and classroom, which nobody questions as one word.

Yes, it is one word, with a hyphen (-) in between ‘real’ and
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Continue Learning about English Language Arts

» Any time you watch an old movie, you will notice how language is used differently»

«En cualquier momento que veas una película antigua, notarás que el lenguaje es usado de manera diferente»

I agree with my colleagues, but will add that I think that is a bad translation. I would only use en cualquier momento to express the idea of «it is not known / it does not matter when.»

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Hurry, they may be here anytime / at any moment. (unknown)

Don’t worry about paying me back right away. You can do it anytime. (unimportant)

As for anytime vs. any time, the following may be helpful.

As English is an ever-evolving language, words are often caught mid-change. The adverb anytime is currently evolving; in common usage, it may be written as one word, but in formal communication it should be left as two words.

Quotation marks may be used any time a character is speaking.

This sentence is obviously formal, so a compound word would be inappropriate here.

My new bicycle allows me to go anywhere, anytime.

In this sentence, anytime is acceptable as a compound word because the sentence is informal; it’s not the kind of thing one would write in an essay or proposal.

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