go chase yourself
"go-chase-yourself" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“go chase yourself” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Go away (and stop bothering me).
Corpus desk
Index EN-go-chase-yourself · go chase yourself · English
go chase yourself · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | go chase yourself |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “go chase yourself” in English
Rare enough to double-check
go chase yourself is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Go away (and stop bothering me).".
No misspelling variants are generated for go chase yourself in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is go chase yourself, spelled G-O- -C-H-A-S-E- -Y-O-U-R-S-E-L-F.
Definition
- 1Go away (and stop bothering me).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how go chase yourself appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One of the boys nudged him and said, "Hey! Your sister's followin' us." "Yeah," agreed Neeley. The boy turned around and yelled at Francie: "Go chase yourself!"
1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 147, "This is what I was trying to get at last night. Before you told me to chase myself...."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.