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herself

her·selfUK /hɜːˈsɛlf/pronoun

herself is spelled H-E-R-S-E-L-F: 7 letters and 2 syllables (her·self). It appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, herself means “Her; the feminine object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in herself?

Letters7: H-E-R-S-E-L-F
Syllables2: her·self
In writing60 times per million words; the 1,724th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is herself?

Herself appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce herself?

  • UK /hɜːˈsɛlf/
  • UK /(h)əsɛlf/
  • /æˈsɛl/

Herself has 2 syllables, split her·self in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-herself.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with herself?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as herself (/ɛlf/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: flesher.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of herself

  • she
  • himself masculine
  • itself
  • themself singular
  • themselves singular

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does herself mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

pronoun

  1. 1

    feminineHer; the feminine object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

    Sandra injured herself.

  2. 2

    feminineShe; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .

    She was injured herself.

  3. 3

    IrelandfeminineThe subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

    What's herself up to this time?

pronoun

as Herself
  1. 1

    Honorific alternative letter-case form of herself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Herself in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchelle-même ((reflexive object) her)
Germansich ((reflexive object) her), sie selbst ((as intensifier) she)
Portuguesea si (própria/mesma), se ((reflexive object) her), ela mesma ((as intensifier) she)
Spanishse, ella misma, sí misma ((reflexive object) her)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does herself come from?

From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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