ourselves: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 12 letter points · starts with O · ends with S
Meaning of ourselves
pron
- reflexive
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
Example: We should keep this for ourselves.
- emphatic
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
Example: We did it ourselves.
- colloquial
Referring to everyone being addressed.
Example: Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.
- colloquial
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
Example: Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?
Source: Wiktionary — ourselves.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is ourselves in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of ourselves
O(1) + U(1) + R(1) + S(1) + E(1) + L(1) + V(4) + E(1) + S(1) = 12 points.
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Anagrams of ourselves
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from ourselves
177 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in ourselves. Showing up to 24, longest first.