every so often

1. 1.

   occasionally

   “every so often she visits her father”

   Synonymsevery now and then

Questions about every so often

What does every so often mean?

every so often means "occasionally".

What is another word for every so often?

Close synonyms include every now and then. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is every so often a common word?

every so often is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.