youself
"youself" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“youself” is uncommon English (frequency #74,675 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,675
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of yourself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-youself · youself · English
youself · rank #74,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,675
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH youthfulness
Nearest frequency peer: youthfulness (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “youself”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- xylem
xylem
25,330 corpus weight
- youself
youself
25,326 corpus weight
- youthfulness
youthfulness
25,325 corpus weight
- Zabel
Zabel
25,324 corpus weight
- Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou
25,322 corpus weight
- Zygmunt
Zygmunt
25,318 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “youself” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | youself |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “youself” in English
Rare enough to double-check
youself is uncommon English at frequency #74,675 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of yourself.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for youself, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 youself, spelled Y-O-U-S-E-L-F.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of yourself.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how youself appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Wat for, Massa Lynnford, you send dis nigga 'way and mos' quite git killed youself? Vy you do dis, Massa Lynnford? Dis nigga hab de right to git killed fust, Massa Lynnford! fust afore youself, Massa Lynnford! You know dat! Vy you send him 'way?” exclaimed Toby, who had got some jumbled-up account of what had happened.
“Settle youself der, boy. Why, I won' be keepin' you from doin' what yore pa done said. Asides, it ain't gonna take too lon to has us a little drink. Look at de rain, boy; it be comin' down right fierce.”
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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