List of English words without rhymes - wikipedia List of English words without rhymes The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes -- that is, a list of words in the English language which rhyme with no other English word. The word `` rhyme '' here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards. The list was compiled from the point of view of Received Pronunciation ( with a few exceptions for General American ), and may not work for other accents or dialects. Multiple - word rhymes ( a phrase that rhymes with a word, known as a phrasal or mosaic rhyme ), self - rhymes ( adding a prefix to a word and counting it as a rhyme of itself ), and identical rhymes ( words that are identical in their stressed syllables, such as bay and obey ) are often not counted as true rhymes and have not been considered. Only the list of one - syllable words can hope to be anything near complete ; for polysyllabic words, rhymes are the exception rather than the rule. Contents 1 Definition of perfect rhyme 2 Words with obscure perfect rhymes 3 Non-rhyming English words 3.1 Masculine rhymes 3.2 Feminine rhymes 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links Definition of perfect rhyme Following the strict definition of rhyme, a perfect rhyme demands the exact match of all sounds from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word. Therefore, words with the stress far from the end are more likely to have no perfect rhymes. For instance, a perfect rhyme for discomBOBulate would have to rhyme three syllables, - OBulate. There are many words that match most of the sounds from the stressed vowel onwards and so are near rhymes, called slant rhymes. Ovulate, copulate, and populate, for example, vary only slightly in one consonant from discombobulate, and thus provide very usable rhymes for most situations in which a rhyme for discombobulate is desired. However, no other English word has exactly these three final syllables with this stress pattern. And since in most traditions the stressed syllable should not be identical -- the consonant before the stressed vowel should be different -- adding a prefix to a word, as be-elbow for elbow, does not create a perfect rhyme for it. Words that rhyme in one accent or dialect may not rhyme in another. A commonplace example of this is the word of, which when stressed had no rhymes in British Received Pronunciation prior to the 19th century, but which rhymed with love in General American. ( When unstressed, it is a homonym for have. ) In the other direction, iron has no rhyme in General American, but many in RP. Words may also have more than one pronunciation, one with a rhyme, and one without. Words with obscure perfect rhymes This list includes rhymes of words that have been listed as rhymeless. aitch / ˈ - eɪ tʃ /, rhymes with dialectal nache ( the bony point on the rump of an ox or cow ) and one pronunciation of obsolete rache ( a streak down a horse 's face ) angst / ˈ - æŋkst /, rhymes with manxed. Phalanxed is not a perfect rhyme because the stress is on the wrong syllable. The alternative American pronunciation / ˈɑːŋkst / has no rhymes arugula / ˈ - uː ɡjələ /, rhymes with Bugula, a genus of bryozoan beige / ˈbeɪʒ /, rhymes with greige, an adjective referring to unfinished textiles which have not yet been dyed or bleached. blitzed rhymes with spritzed, from spritz, to squirt with water or mist. cairn, rhymes with bairn, a Northern English and Scottish word meaning child chaos / ˈ - eɪ. ɒs /, rhymes with naos, the inner chamber of a temple circle / ˈ - ɜːr kəl /, rhymes with hurkle, to pull in all one 's limbs circus / ˈ - ɜːr kəs /, rhymes with murcous, having cut off one 's thumb coif / ˈ - ɔɪ f /, rhymes with boyf, slang for `` boy - friend '' cusp / ˈ - ʌsp /, rhymes with DUSP, an acronym for `` dual - specificity phosphatase enzyme '' else / ˈ - ɛls /, rhymes with wels, the fish Silurus glanis fiends / ˈ - iː ndz / rhymes with teinds, Scottish word for the portion of an estate assessed for the stipend of the clergy, and archaic Scottish piends film, - s / ˈ - ɪlm, - z / rhymes with pilm, Scottish word for dust. The plural films rhymes with Wilms, a kidney tumor fugue, - s / ˈ - juː ɡ, - z / rhymes with jougs, which is rarely found in the singular gulf, - s / ˈ - ʌlf, - s / rhymes with SULF ( pl. Sulfs ), any of a number of sulfate - regulating enzymes kiln, if pronounced / ˈ - ɪln /, rhymes with the surname Milne eth / ˈ - ɛð /, rhymes with Castilian Spanish merced ' gift ', which is occasionally used in English midst / ˈ - ɪdst /, rhymes with didst, archaic for did ( used with thou ) month / ˈ - ʌnθ /, rhymes with en - plus - oneth ( n + 1 ) th, a mathematical term ; also hundred - and - oneth ( = hundred - and - first ). This also appears in fractions, and so takes the plural, as in twenty thirty - oneths music / ˈ - juː zɪk /, rhymes with anchusic, as in anchusic acid, dysgeusic, having a disorder that causes alterations in one 's sense of taste, ageusic, lacking a sense of taste, and Hoosick ( depending on the exact sounding of the `` s '' ), location in New York State opus ( with a short 0 ), / ˈ - ɒpəs /, rhymes with Hoppus, a method of measuring timber orange / ˈ - ɒr ɪndʒ /, rhymes with Blorenge, a hill in Wales, pint / ˈ - aɪ nt /, rhymes with rynt, a word milkmaids use to get a cow to move plankton / ˈ - æŋktən /, rhymes with Yankton ( Sioux ) plinth / ˈ - ɪnθ /, rhymes with synth, colloquial for synthesizer poem / ˈ - oʊ əm /, rhymes with the Hebrew names Jeroboam and Rehoboam, purple / ˈ - ɜːr pəl /, rhymes with curple, the hindquarters of a horse or donkey, hirple, to walk with a limp, nurple, the act of roughly twisting a nipple ( slang ) rhythm / ˈ - ɪðəm /, rhymes with smitham, fine malt or ore dust silver / ˈ - ɪlvər /, rhymes with chilver, a female lamb siren / ˈ - aɪər ən /, rhymes with gyron, a type of triangle in heraldry, and a few technical terms sylph, rhymes with MILF / milf, vulgar slang originating as an acronym for `` mother I 'd like to fuck '' or similar phrase toilet / ˈ - ɔɪ lɪt /, rhymes with oillet, an eyelet tufts, rhymes with scufts, the third - person singular form of the dialectal verb scuft wharves / ˈ - ɔːr vz /, rhymes with dwarves, Tolkien 's variant of ' dwarfs ' width / ˈ - ɪdθ /, rhymes with obsolete sidth, meaning length woman / ˈ - ʊmən /, rhymes with toman ( some pronunciations ), a Persian coin and military division yttrium / ˈ - ɪtriəm /, rhymes with liberum arbitrium, a legal term Non-rhyming English words This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2016 ) The majority of words with antepenultimate stress, such as animal, citizen, comedy, dangerous, and obvious, and with preantepenultimate stress, such as necessary, logarithm, algorithm and sacrificing, have no rhyme. Masculine rhymes This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. Refractory one - syllable rhymes are uncommon ; there may be fewer than a hundred in English. A great many end in a present or historical suffix - th, or are plural or participle forms. This list includes a few polysyllabic masculine rhymes such as oblige, which have one syllable in their rhyming part. adzed airt ( rhymes with the Scots pronunciations of a number of other words, e.g. `` pairt '', a Scots variant of `` part '' ) alb / - ælb / ( rhymes with some pronunciations of the proper noun `` Kalb '' in the name of Johann de Kalb ) amongst / - ʌŋst / ( `` quincunxed '' could qualify as a rhyme if its second syllable is given secondary stress and if secondary stress is considered sufficient for a perfect rhyme ) angsts / ˈ - æŋksts / bilge boing, - s, - ed borscht / - ɔrʃt / ( could rhyme with dialectal North American pronunciation of `` washed '' as `` worshed / warshed '' ) borshch / - ɔrʃtʃ / ( pronunciation variant of the above ) breadth, - s / ˈ - ɛdθ, - s / bronzed bulb, - s, - ed / ˈ - ʌlb, - d, - z / cleansed coolth corpsed culm delft depth, - s / ˈ - ɛpθ, - s / dreamt ( modern pronunciation often includes a reduced `` p '' as the penultimate sound, causing `` dreamt '' to rhyme with exempt, tempt, etc. ) doth eighth false fifth, - s, - ed / ˈ - ɪfθ, - t, - s / filmed / ˈ - ɪlmd / flange fourths glimpsed / ˈ - ɪmpst / gouge ( d ) grilse ( en ) gulfed / ˈ - ʌlft / kilned kirsch / ˈ - ɪər ʃ / loge midsts / ˈ - ɪdsts / morgue mulcts / ˈ - ʌlkts / ninth, - s / ˈ - aɪ nθ, - s / oblige, - ed / ˈ - aɪ dʒ, - d / oomph pierced prompts quaich rouged scarce / ˈ - ɛər s / sculpts / ˈ - ʌlpts / sowthed, southed / ˈ - aʊ θt / sixth, - s / ˈ - ɪksθ, - s / spoilt stilb swoln torsk traipsed twelfth, - s / ˈ - ɛlfθ, - s / The `` f '' in `` twelfth '' is commonly elided in casual speech, causing `` twelfth '' to rhyme with `` health '' and `` wealth ''. unbeknownst vuln, - s, - ed / ˈ - ʌln, - d, - z / waltzed warmth whilst / ˈ - aɪ lst / wolf, - s, - ed / ˈ - ʊlf, - t, - s / wolve, - s, - d / ˈ - ʊlv, - d, - z / worlds wounds yoicks pork / ˈ - ɔər k / has no rhymes in conservative RP and GA. However, the distinction between horse and hoarse has been mostly lost in younger generations, and for them and many others pork which was an exception to the normal rule, now rhymes with fork, cork, etc. ( / ˈ - ɔːr k / ) The OED no longer lists `` / pɔək / '' as an alternative pronunciation in its third edition. Nonce words ending in - ed ( ' provided with ' ) may produce other potentially refractory masculine rhymes. There are additional words which are only partially assimilated into English, such as Russian kovsh / ˈkɒvʃ /, which are refractory rhymes. Although not meant as a complete list, there are some additional refractory rhymes in GA. Some of these are due to RP being a non-rhotic accent, and having merged rhymes formerly distinguished by / r /. heighth, - s / ˈ - aɪ tθ, - s / iron / ˈ - aɪər n / karsts / ˈ - ɑːr sts / Feminine rhymes For feminine rhymes, the final two syllables must match to count as a rhyme. Once the stress shifts to the penultimate syllable, rhymeless words are quite common, perhaps even the norm : there may be more rhymeless words than words with rhymes. The following words are representative, but there are thousands of others. angel angry anxious chimney comment elbow empty engine foible foyer hundred ( th ) husband liquid luggage monster neutron nothing olive penguin polka problem sanction sandwich secret something zigzag See also List of closed pairs of English rhyming words Notes Jump up ^ OED search for pronunciations ending in `` * QbjUleIt ''. Jump up ^ In RP, stressed of currently has the rhymes sov, short for sovereign, and Sov, short for Soviet. Jump up ^ Lopped off in a way reminiscent of a Manx cat 's taillessness : in Horse Nonsense by R.J. Yeatman. Jump up ^ Exceptions for perfect rhymes with angst and angsts being some dialectical or theatrical ( such as in performances of Shakespeare 's plays ) pronunciations of verbs conjugated in the somewhat obsolete second person plural form associated with the pronoun thou, which end with - est or - st. For example, thankest and wrongest, as in `` thou thankest me too much '' or `` wrongst thou not me ! '', depending on how the words thankest / θæŋkst / ) and wrongst / rɑːŋkst / are pronounced, with the latter dependent on being subject to vowel - forward version of the cot -- caught merger ). Jump up ^ After / dʒ / there is no distinction between / uː / and / juː /. No other word ends in / ˈ - juːɡ /, but droog and for some people Moog end in / ˈ - uːɡ / ; whether this is considered a rhyme depends on whether / ˈ - juː / is considered a diphthong. Jump up ^ Also attested in poetry is onety - oneth / ˈwʌntiˈwʌnθ / Jump up ^ With the American pronunciation / ˈoʊpəs / with a long o, opus rhymes with other words, such as Canopus, lagopous, monopus ( one - eyed ), and slang mopus. Jump up ^ Webster 's Third gives two pronunciations for sporange, one of which rhymes. However, one is a spelling pronunciation based on orange, and the OED only has the non-rhyming pronunciation, with the stress on the ange : / spɒˈrændʒ /. The American pronunciation with one syllable has no rhyme, even in non-rhotic accents. Jump up ^ Held, Carl. `` Breaking the Orange Rhyme Barrier ''. Games. Issue 167 ( Vol. 25, No. 1 ). pp. 10 -- 13. February 2001. Jump up ^ The plural has a common rhyme in Heintz. Jump up ^ Held, Carl. `` Orange, Silver, now Purple ( More Lexical Lunacy ) ''. Games. Issue 207 ( Vol. 29, No. 1 ). pp. 4 -- 9, 16. February 2005. Jump up ^ Rhythmic has no rhymes apart from logarithmic and algorithmic, which are often excluded for having identical syllables. Jump up ^ Held, Carl. `` From Orange to Silver ( More Lexical Lunacy ) ''. Games. Issue 200 ( Vol. 28, No. 4 ). pp. 4 -- 9, 16. May 2004. Jump up ^ For some people, also environ, but this is not RP, in which environ / ˈ - aɪər ən / has no rhyme. Jump up ^ Nodal, John H. ; Milner, George ( 1875 ). A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, Volume 14. Manchester Literary Club. p. 233. Retrieved 19 December 2016. Jump up ^ The plural women also has but a single rhyme, a more common one : persimmon, but only in some American pronunciations. Jump up ^ In the August 1980 Kickshaws, ( 1 ) Howard Bergerson listed 55, but rhymes have been found for some of them. ( 2 ) Apart from those listed under ' obscure rhymes ' above, these are, beards -- weirds ; filched -- obs. milched, dial. pilched, slang zilched ; fluxed -- betuxed ( dressed in a tux ), dial. muxed ; jinxed -- sphinxed, obs. nonce minxed ; lairds -- cairds ( both Scottish ) ; leashed -- schottisched, niched ( one pronunciation ), Sc. creeshed ; mouthed -- southed ( alt. pronunciation in Dict.com, but not OED ) ; mulched -- gulched ; puss ( cat, face ) -- wuss, schuss ; scalds -- tech. faulds, obs. balds, Sc. caulds & spauld ; tenth / s -- nth / s ; tufts -- Crufts, yufts ( Russian leather ). Jump up ^ Though Cole reported a phrasal rhyme in `` Elijah knew, oblige a Jew ''. Jump up ^ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pairt Jump up ^ https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/alb Jump up ^ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Kalb Jump up ^ The alternative American pronunciation / ˈɑːŋkst / has no rhymes even in the singular. Jump up ^ http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/message-details1.cfm?AsklingID=200319109 Jump up ^ Bulb can be assumed to rhyme with culb, an obsolete word ( and hapax legomenon ) for a glass distillation vessel attested without pronunciation from 1683. Jump up ^ The plural films rhymes with Wilms, a kidney tumor. Jump up ^ The infinitive mulct rhymes with sulked, bulked, etc. Jump up ^ As / ˈsaʊθt /. The verbs sowthed ( as in sowthed a tune ) and southed ( pointed south ) are identical and therefore not considered rhymes to each other. Phrases like foul - mouthed / ˈfaʊlmaʊθt /, though close, have the wrong stress to be perfect rhymes. Sowths, souths rhyme with mouth 's. ( Southed but not sowthed is also pronounced / ˈsaʊðd /, which rhymes with mouthed. ) Jump up ^ Some promising words are befezzed ( wearing a fez ) and bemusicked, though the first rhymes with Yezd. Jump up ^ Colloquial GA heighth is / ˈhaɪtθ /. In RP, highth / ˈhaɪθ / rhymes with dryth ( = drought ), rithe, etc., but is obsolete. Jump up ^ Two syllables, / ˈ - aɪ. ər n /, for many speakers. In RP, this rhymes with lion, cyan, Zion, etc. Jump up ^ In RP, this rhymes with fasts. Jump up ^ Liberman, Mark ( 8 December 2009 ). `` Rhymes ''. Language Log. Retrieved 8 December 2009. Jump up ^ British pronunciation / ˈfɔɪeɪ / or / ˈfɔɪjeɪ / only. The US pronunciation / ˈfɔɪər / has many rhymes including coyer and lawyer. Jump up ^ For some ( GA ) speakers, polka rhymes with mocha Jump up ^ Though of course something rhymes with phrases such as this dumb thing. 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Question: what word rhymes with orange in the english language
Answer: Blorenge, a hill in Wales