myself
my·self/maɪˈsɛlf/pronoun
myself is spelled M-Y-S-E-L-F, 2 syllables: my·self. The wrong spelling people search most is mysef: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 76 of all searches for the word. Myself is a pronoun meaning “Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also…”.
How many letters and syllables are in myself?
| Letters | 6: M-Y-S-E-L-F |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: my·self |
| In writing | 204 times per million words; the 494th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, mysef, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell myself?
Myself is spelled M-Y-S-E-L-F. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for myself in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is myself?
Myself appears 204 times per million words in written English, the 494th 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 myself?
- /maɪˈsɛlf/
- /məˈsɛlf/
Myself has 2 syllables, split my·self in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-myself.wav, En-us-myself.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with myself
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: meself.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What does myself mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 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.
- 2
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.
- 3
In my normal state of body or mind.
I feel like myself.
- 4
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.
- 5
archaicproscribedI (as the subject of a verb).
My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
- 6
Indianonstandardmy name is...
Myself John.
pronoun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as 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).
Myself in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | me, m', moi-même |
| German | mich, mir , selbst, selber |
| Portuguese | me, mim , eu mesmo, eu mesma |
| Spanish | me , (yo) mismo |
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 myself come from?
From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).