yourself
The verdict
“yourself” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #17,949 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #17,949
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pronome reflexivo da segunda pessoa do singular
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yourself |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yourself” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for yourself is 8 letters long, classified as a pronoun. Corpus data places it at rank #17,949 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "pronome reflexivo da segunda pessoa do singular".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for yourself, with forms such as "oyurself", "yoruself", and "youreslf". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is yourself, spelled Y-O-U-R-S-E-L-F.
Definition
- 1pronome reflexivo da segunda pessoa do singular
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oyurself,yoruself,youreslf,yourrself,yoursefl,yourselff,yoursellf,yourslef,yoursself,yousrelf,yuorself,yyourself
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yourself - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “yourself”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Y-O-U-R-S-E-L-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.