Meself or myself?
meself is a pronoun meaning “Alternative form of myself”; myself is a pronoun meaning “Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or…”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) myself is about 1,445 times as common as meself.
What is the difference between meself and myself?
| meself | myself | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | pronoun | pronoun |
| Meaning | Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity… | |
| Example | none recorded | I taught myself |
| Pronunciation | [ˌmiˈsɛlf] | /maɪˈsɛlf/ /məˈsɛlf/ |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words | 204 times per million words |
Sources: meself and myself in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of meself and myself
meself
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AustraliaIrelandUKslangAlternative form of myself
myself
- 1
Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject
I taught myself
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Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context
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Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described
I myself have witnessed the event
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In my normal state of body or mind
I feel like myself
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proscribedMe, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself
Give the ball to John or myself
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, meself or myself?
meself appears about once in every 7 million words; myself 204 times per million words.
meself about once in every 7 million wordsmyself 204 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).