Talk:List of English words without rhymes

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Word                                                     	Rhyme                                                              	Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   	Why not a rhyme
against                                                  	dispensed, incensed                                                	Removed fenced and sensed from this table                                                                                                                                                                                               	
aggry                                                    	braggry                                                            	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	this is 'braggery'
alterity                                                 	parity dexterity, posterity, etc.                                  	rhyme per OED (vowel of parity was wrong) 'parity' does rhyme in accents with the marry-merry-Mary merger                                                                                                                               	
angry                                                    	hangry (neologism), nangry                                         	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	these both contain 'angry': a blend and a misparsing
animal                                                   	disanimal, dismal                                                  	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	this is the same word
babe                                                     	wabe, outgrabe, scrabe, suabe, nabe (slang)                        	does not rhyme with astrolabe                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
beards (pl)                                              	Weirds (Fates)                                                     	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
beige                                                    	grège                                                              	rhyme per OED: "Vera Dexter designed this sports dress of Belding's Crêpe in grège and beige."                                                                                                                                          	
blacksmith                                               	jacksmith                                                          	rhymes per OED (also, we're not compiling compound words, which would number in the thousands)                                                                                                                                          	
breathed (participle : well-breathed, long-breathed, etc.	methed (high on methamphetamines)                                  	(too recent for the old OED)                                                                                                                                                                                                            	
bulb                                                     	culb, culbe                                                        	presumed rhyme, added to 'obscure'                                                                                                                                                                                                      	
bulbous                                                  	? culbous (non-OED)                                                	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	no evidence that this is a word
canine                                                   	ranine                                                             	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
celebrity                                                	tenebrity                                                          	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
chaos                                                    	naos                                                               	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
chocolate                                                	2-syll. rocklet, 3-syll bockelet                                   	rhyme per M-W11                                                                                                                                                                                                                         	OED only has bockerel and bockeret (M & F) for the latter.
circle                                                   	hurkle, opercle                                                    	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
clothes                                                  	oaths                                                              	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
condom                                                   	quondam                                                            	modern pronunciation is a rhyme                                                                                                                                                                                                         	OED pronunciation was still /ˈkɒndɒm/
crayon                                                   	rayon                                                              	rhymes per OED, though both have alt. pronunciations                                                                                                                                                                                    	
denizen                                                  	venison                                                            	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	does not rhyme in GA
different                                                	odoriferent, proliferent, vociferent                               	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
eighth                                                   	weighth                                                            	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	likely /eitθ/ vs. /eiθ/
elbow                                                    	beelbow                                                            	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	this is the same word
experiment                                               	merriment                                                          	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
flange                                                   	gange (protect fishhook w a wire)                                  	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
film                                                     	pilm                                                               	"pilm" is an old British word for dust.                                                                                                                                                                                                 	Rhymed with the online Unabridged Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
galaxy                                                   	agalaxy                                                            	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	no, stress is wrong
gulf                                                     	begulf, bloodulf, disgulf, engulf, ingulf                          	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	these are the same word, except for bloodulf, which per Webster's 1913 has the wrong stress (Blood"ulf /ˈblʊdəlf/)
golf                                                     	rolf                                                               	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
heighth                                                  	dryth (drought), myth (old pronunciation), rithe (a brooklet), etc.	rhyme in RP (/-aiθ/) per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                            	None of these rhyme in GA, where heighth is /haitθ/
homograph                                                	nomograph                                                          	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
hostage (short o)                                        	costage                                                            	presumed pronunciation only                                                                                                                                                                                                             	?
hyphenate                                                	asiphonate                                                         	per OED (presumably also siphonate)                                                                                                                                                                                                     	
jejune                                                   	moon etc etc etc.                                                  	per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 	
karsts                                                   	fasts                                                              	rhymes in RP, though there is no rhyme in GA                                                                                                                                                                                            	
lairds (pl)                                              	cairds (tinkers), brairds (first shoots of grass)                  	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
Lisbon                                                   	Brisbane                                                           	per OED & Wiki pronunciation                                                                                                                                                                                                            	
matrix                                                   	administratrix etc.                                                	dozens per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
month                                                    	? hunth (abbrev. for 100 thousandth)                               	no evidence this is a word, but there is (n + 1)th. (holimonth, twelvemonth, & mid-month, besides containing the word, have the wrong stress pattern)                                                                                   	
mouth (verb), mouths (noun)                              	south (verb) (-/auθ/ or -/auð/)                                    	the verb mouth & the plural noun are hard to rhyme, but covered by the 2ary pron. of the verb south per dict.com                                                                                                                        	
music                                                    	anchusic                                                           	(obscure) rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                	
(un)necessary                                            	sedentary                                                          	The vowel sounds match perfectly, at least with the American pronunciation                                                                                                                                                              	
of                                                       	sov, Sov, rav                                                      	rhyme per OED (& sovs, ravs rhyme)                                                                                                                                                                                                      	
orange                                                   	borange                                                            	already have some words, but this supposed Aussie slang is not confirmed. one alleged use = the brown-orange skin color white people get from using too much fake-tan lotion. as a possible blend with orange, it wouldn't count anyway.	
pedant                                                   	quadrupedant                                                       	obscure (means 'horse' etc.)                                                                                                                                                                                                            	wrong stress, in addition to otherwise having identical syllables
pint                                                     	rynt, rhint, bint(?), behint (Robert Burns: The Cooper O' Cuddy)   	rynt = rhint; not 'bint'; behint not RP                                                                                                                                                                                                 	
pizza                                                    	Tietze                                                             	as in Tietze's syndrome. Rhymes per OED.                                                                                                                                                                                                	
plankton                                                 	Yankton                                                            	(the Yankton nation, town). rhymes per dictionary.com                                                                                                                                                                                   	
poet                                                     	introït (antiphon in Mass)                                         	w/ diaeresis, rhymes per OED. also numerous phrases: know it, show it, etc.                                                                                                                                                             	
poem                                                     	proem                                                              	and for many people probably phloem                                                                                                                                                                                                     	
pork                                                     	Bork, cork, dork, fork, stork, York                                	I don't have access to the OED but surely one of these is a rhyme.                                                                                                                                                                      	No, none of them are. They're all /ɔːk/ rather than /ɔək/ (or in GA, /ɔːrk/ rather than /oʊrk/, if anyone in GA maintains that distinction)
porringer                                                	oranger                                                            	rare; usually "orangest" but "more orange" ("more orange than the orangest orange")                                                                                                                                                     	?
postage                                                  	hostage  (long o)                                                  	presumed pronunciation only                                                                                                                                                                                                             	?
promise                                                  	Comice, phlomis                                                    	as in Comice pear. both rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                   	
reptile                                                  	septile                                                            	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
rhythm                                                   	algorithm, logarithm                                               	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	no, stress is wrong
sculpt                                                   	gulped                                                             	also 'pulped' in OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                    	
shadow                                                   	laddo                                                              	(as in "lad") rhymes per OED. also, for some, dorado (a fish)                                                                                                                                                                           	
sowths, -ed a tune, souths, -ed (verb) /auθs, auθt/      	                                                                   	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	sowth and south are identical rhymes, and so count as unrhymed. bad-mouthed etc. have the wrong stress. Scouth and routh do not seem to have plural forms. Plural of drouth (= drought) possible but unattested.
spatula                                                  	Terebratula (brachiopod)                                           	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
tenth                                                    	nth                                                                	pronounced "enth", clearly attestible                                                                                                                                                                                                   	
tufts (pl)                                               	yufts (pl)                                                         	tuft rhymes w yuft, a kind of Russian leather, per OED; attested in pl.                                                                                                                                                                 	
valve                                                    	salve                                                              	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
wasp                                                     	knosp (knob ornament)                                              	rhymes per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	
widow                                                    	kiddo                                                              	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	
width                                                    	sidth                                                              	rhymes per OED (obscure)                                                                                                                                                                                                                	
window                                                   	Indo, pindo (palm)                                                 	                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        	
zonary                                                   	donary, nonary, stonery                                            	rhyme per OED                                                                                                                                                                                                                           	
===Male rhymes to check===
Just a place to keep track of male rhymes that don't have many words in them. 
propose that wounds be moved to list of words with obscure rhymes. Compare with Elizabethan use of "zounds," which does not rhyme with "hounds" but is a derrivative of "God's wounds" or "Christ's wounds" like this: "God   'swounds"...
*asterisks mark apparent refractory rhymes which might be added to the article. 
;eɪ rhymes
:-eɪtʃ (aitch, nache)
:-eɪtʃt (aitched*)
:-eɪʒ (beige, greige)
:-eɪʃt ("creched"*? [/ɛ/ pronunciation has rhymes])
:-eɪθt (graithed, (good) faithed)
;æ rhymes 
[Help, please! kwami (talk) has a bug in his copy of the OED which won't allow these rhymes to be checked]
:-æʒ (?)
:-æld (palled (around), corralled)
:-ælt (shalt)
:-ælts (Alz, shalts (as in "shalts and shalt-nots"))  
:-æpts (adapts, rapts [& periapts -slant])
:-æð (?)
:-æðz (?)
:-ævd (halved, calved) 
;ɛ rhymes
:-ɛŋk 	(Penk, elench, Schenck) obscure
:-ɛps 	(reps, seps, preps, steps, Led Zep's)
:-ɛð 	edh* (only Sp. merced "gift")
:-ɛðz 	edhs* 
:-ɛzd	(be-fezzed, lezzed (out))
I've hatted what appears to be mostly untouched since 2019 at least.  --128.164.177.55 (talk) 20:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Rhymes removed from the article

message: Just a place to keep track of male rhymes that don't have many words in them. 
propose that wounds be moved to list of words with obscure rhymes. Compare with Elizabethan use of "zounds," which does not rhyme with "hounds" but is a derrivative of "God's wounds" or "Christ's wounds" like this: "God   'swounds"...
*asterisks mark apparent refractory rhymes which might be added to the article. 
;eɪ rhymes
:-eɪtʃ (aitch, nache)
:-eɪtʃt (aitched*)
:-eɪʒ (beige, greige)
:-eɪʃt ("creched"*? [/ɛ/ pronunciation has rhymes])
:-eɪθt (graithed, (good) faithed)
;æ rhymes 
[Help, please! kwami (talk) has a bug in his copy of the OED which won't allow these rhymes to be checked]
:-æʒ (?)
:-æld (palled (around), corralled)
:-ælt (shalt)
:-ælts (Alz, shalts (as in "shalts and shalt-nots"))  
:-æpts (adapts, rapts [& periapts -slant])
:-æð (?)
:-æðz (?)
:-ævd (halved, calved) 
;ɛ rhymes
:-ɛŋk 	(Penk, elench, Schenck) obscure
:-ɛps 	(reps, seps, preps, steps, Led Zep's)
:-ɛð 	edh* (only Sp. merced "gift")
:-ɛðz 	edhs* 
:-ɛzd	(be-fezzed, lezzed (out))
I've hatted what appears to be mostly untouched since 2019 at least.  --128.164.177.55 (talk) 20:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Male rhymes to check

message: If one is going to have a section of words that have obscure rhymes, then one needs to define obscure. It's likely to include an arbitrary component, e.g. something like "only 'x' number of mentions in 'y' amount of time (or 'z' number of internet mentions)." That would seem fine to me -- even if adjusted over time, as we should anticipate. But obscure needs to be defined. Perhaps there's a shortcut -- dictionaries seem to use the term like they use the term, "archaic." So whatever standard the dictionary uses might suffice -- or use the dictionary itself, if not its standard (e.g.), "If the OED uses the word 'obscure' in its definition, then it's in this list." 2601:204:D200:7000:B98D:6F18:5782:CF5B (talk) 13:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  obscure 

message: Are there any words that rhyme with vozhd (note: the "zh" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "s" in "vision", and the "o" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "a" in "father") IsraeliEditor54 (talk) 08:49, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: massaged, collaged 174.91.170.173 (talk) 19:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vozhd 

message: "against" in American English rhymes with "incensed", but in many Canadian and some British accents it has an "ay" sound, /əˈɡeɪnst/. I can't think of any rhymes with this pronunciation 174.91.170.173 (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian/British pronunciation of against