Words that rhyme with Yourselves
Yourselves is a three-syllable word built around the mid /ษ/, and it trails off into a fricative. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. In a song, the word is a low-register anchor. Behind it, the rhyme map shows strict matches show up in low numbers, family rhymes give you a small but useful slant pool, and the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. Lean on assonance and the song will sound contemporary, not catalogued.
Open yourselves in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (6 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- themselves
- delves
- elves
- selves
- shelves
- ourselves
Family rhymes (2 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- delfs
- selfs
Only 2 matches for yourselves in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- abeles
- cartels
- compels
- dispels
- excels
- gazelles
- hotels
- lapels
- misspells
- motels
- outsells
- pastels
- propels
- repels
- resells
- delve
- shelve
- twelve
- farewells
- belles
- bells
- bels
- cells
- cels
- dwells
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- amends
- ascends
- attends
- befriends
- commends
- contends
- defends
- depends
- descends
- extends
- herself
- himself
- offends
- portends
- pretends
- suspends
- themself
- transcends
- yourself
- delved
- elms
- helms
- realms
- shelved
- welds
Consonance (20 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- absolves
- dissolves
- evolves
- resolves
- revolves
- elvers
- involves
- olives
- salvos
- solvers
- solves
- valves
- wolves
- bolivars
- calvaries
- dissolvers
- pulverize
- revolvers
- rollovers
- televise
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said yourselves, I heard themselves, neither of us was wrong.
Yourselves and delfs: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
From yourselves to abeles, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Track the vowel from yourselves to amends and you have the chorus.
The yourselves at the start of the line, the absolves tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why yourselves rhymes the way it does
Yourselves is built around the front /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's three-syllable and ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 6 matches, family rhymes 2, additive and subtractive together 50, assonance 12,074, and consonance 20. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for yourselves tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 yourselves. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open yourselves in RhymeForge above.