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  hellotherehowareyoudoingtoday · Member · Jun 7, 2017 at 2:42 am

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  Hello, I would like to completely delete my account and free up my username for others to use. Can you all please help me with this?

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  krutidugade · Member · Jun 7, 2017 at 3:01 am

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  Hi there,

  There is no way to delete a WordPress account once created.
  You can instead leave your account inactive by following this:

  1) Delete Site linked to your account
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  Note:
  Once you delete your site you can’t have the same domain name. Read the link below before doing so.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
  You can instead empty your site
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  2) Change your password to random string and leave the account inactive.

  3) Change email address under Account Settings. This will help in creating another WordPress account in future with same email id as every WordPress account is linked to unique email id.
  Follow this link for detailed information: https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  free up my username for others to use

  I am not sure if your username will be available to others but you can change your Username by following these steps
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

  Hope this helps!