Words that rhyme with Several
There's a particular shape to several: three-syllable, built on a low-front /æ/, ending that flows into the next line via a liquid. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. The word arrives in song as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. If you typed what rhymes with several to land here, the breakdown is this: the strict-rhyme column is bare, family rhymes come up empty, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Treat the assonance list as the main shelf — the strict column is the footnote.
Open several in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for several in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for several. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- abele
- bandshell
- bedel
- befell
- burrell
- cartel
- carvel
- compel
- dispel
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- ferrel
- foretell
- gazelle
- hotel
- impel
- intel
- lapel
- marcel
- misspell
- morel
- morrell
- moselle
- motel
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- chevron
- emerald
- emeralds
- petrels
- bestial
- bevelled
- brethren
- careful
- dental
- devils
- dreadful
- egret
- fretful
- gentle
- heavens
- kemple
- leavened
- leavens
- lentil
- leveled
- levelled
- levels
- mental
- nevels
- pencil
Consonance (2 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- overrule
- severally
Only 2 matches for several in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for several in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for several. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Several alone, abele in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
Several on the upbeat, chevron on the down — the slant does the work.
The several at the start of the line, the overrule tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why several rhymes the way it does
Several is built around a low-front /æ/ (/æ/); it's three-syllable and trails through a flowing liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 10,654, and consonance 2. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With several, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for several. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open several in RhymeForge above.