# ourselves

> English word · Pronoun · IPA /aʊəˈsɛlvz/ · frequency rank #2,401

## Definitions
1. Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
2. Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
3. Referring to everyone being addressed.
4. Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.

## Etymology
Morphologically our + -selves.

## Common misspellings (13)
`oruselves`, `oureslves`, `ourrselves`, `ourselevs`, `oursellves`, `ourselvess`, `ourselvse`, `ourselvves`, `oursevles`, `oursleves`, `oursselves`, `ousrelves`, `uorselves`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ourselves