Words That Rhyme With Ourselves
53 rhymes for "ourselves" (3 syllables): perfect rhymes, multisyllable rhymes and near rhymes, each grouped by syllable count with the most common words first. Click a linked word to see what rhymes with it.
How to use this rhyme
- "ourselves" has only a few perfect rhymes (shelves, delves, elves and selves), so many writers mix in near rhymes to avoid the obvious pairs.
- For a softer, less predictable sound, try a near rhyme such as overwhelms, organelles and sells.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like ourself and outerwear carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for ourselves (6)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
- shelves
- delves
- elves
- selves
2 syllables
- themselves
- yourselves
Multisyllable rhymes for ourselves (2)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- ourself
- outerwear
Near rhymes for ourselves (45)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
3 syllables
- overwhelms
- organelles
1 syllable
- sells
- spells
- tells
- bells
- cells
- realms
- shells
- smells
- dwells
- elms
- fells
- helms
- swells
- welds
- wells
- yells
- gels
- else
- helps
- twelve
- shelve
- belts
- delve
- elks
- felts
- melts
- pelts
- revs
- delved
- shelved
2 syllables
- compels
- cartels
- dispels
- excels
- farewells
- gazelles
- hotels
- lapels
- misspells
- motels
- pastels
- propels
- repels
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Questions about rhymes for ourselves
What rhymes with ourselves?
Common perfect rhymes for ourselves include shelves, delves, elves, selves, themselves and yourselves. This page lists 53 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for ourselves?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of ourselves but change a consonant. Good ones include overwhelms, organelles, sells, spells, tells and bells.
How many syllables are in ourselves?
Ourselves has 3 syllables in standard US pronunciation.
Rhymes use US pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University) and the SCOWL word lists (Kevin Atkinson). Offensive words are left out.