FredericvsyourselfTell them apart

Quick tell: Frederic is a name, yourself is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Frederic” is a name and “yourself” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,578
“Frederic” frequency rank
#21,854
“yourself” frequency rank
51432
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Frederic yourself
Definition männlicher, okzitanischer Vorname [du] dich selbst; [du] dir selbst, [du] selbst

Letter map: Frederic vs yourself

Shared letters muted; letters that set Frederic and yourself apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Frederic (CCVCVCVC) and yourself (VVVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
Frederic
8 ch
yourself

Part-of-speech tell for Frederic / yourself

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Frederic is aname and yourselfapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 8 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51432, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Frederic is recorded at frequency rank #29,578, classified as aname, pronounced […]. yourself is at rank #21,854, tagged as apron, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51432, this pair ranks #1,135,774 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Frederic vs yourself

Shared letters: efr. Private to "Frederic": cdi. Private to "yourself": losuy.

"Frederic" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC  ·  "yourself" · 8 letters · shape VVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Fredericferderic · ffrederic · frdeeric · fredderic · fredeirc · frederci · fredericc · frederric
  • yourselfoyurself · yoruself · youreslf · yourrself · yoursefl · yourselff · yoursellf · yourslef

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Frederic" and "yourself" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Frederic" is a name and "yourself" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Frederic" vs "yourself" - which ranks higher?
"yourself" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,854 in our German list, against #29,578 for "Frederic". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Frederic" and "yourself". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Frederic" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "yourself" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,135,774 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Frederic" and "yourself" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Frederic vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,135,774 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list