What rhymes with orange?

Question

what rhymes with orange? or purple? is murple a word?

Answer 1

If you are looking for a PERFECT rhyme-- in which the sound of everything from the vowel with the word's main accent to the end of the word-- matches, the ONLY rhyme is "door hinge" and that ONLY in certain dialects of English.

For MOST dialects, you'll have to settle for some sort of "near rhyme" where MOST of the sounds match. The best match in this case would have to include the accented "OR" (In other words "courage", "lozenge" and "syringe" are NOT to be preferred; also counting against syringe is the fact that the accent falls on a different syllable!)

So I think your best near rhyme would be a two-word rhyme combining a word ending with OR and "inch". Frankly, the only remotely plausible one I can come up with is:
"four inch"
("nch" doesn't match "nge" perfectly, but it's close!)

More useful might be
forage, porridge, storage

which match all but one sound (and that sound is completely omitted, which usually provides a closer match than if some completely unrelated sound is use). Now if you can speak the lines as if you have a cold, they might end up sounding like PERFECT rhymes for "ora(n)ge"!


Next best is to try something like:
foreign, warren, floren, Lauren

not quite as good because it lacks the FINAL consonant, which tends to be important in rhyming.
But adding an 's' --warrens, florens, Lauren's -- may improve the rhyme, since the sound (actually a 'z' sound) roughly corresponds to the "g" of orange. In this case, you can add:
Florence, abhorrence, warrants, torrents

Close to this is all the words ending with -ORing (though in this case the i is longer, almost an "ee" sound; but in certain accents that pronounce "ing" with a hard g at the end it almost works!). So you might use:
flooring, goring, poring, pouring, roaring, scoring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, warring, adoring, deploring, exploring, ignoring, imploring, restoring

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You'd have to try a similar approach for "purple", unless you find a way to use the Scottish word "hirple", meaning "to walk with a limp"
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561509841/hirple.html

For fairly close rhymes, the best bet is the change the /p/ sound (in "ple") to something fairly close --

Substituting /b/
-- herbal, verbal, gerbil, burble

Substituting /f/
the exclamation "gurfle!"
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gurfle
"gurfle" (capricious, changeable)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Gerful

/v/ - serval, servile (American pronunciation), curval

/t/ or /d/ -- turtle, hurdle, curdle, girdle, furdle

/k/ -- circle, furcal [='forked']

/g/ -burgle, gurgle, tergal, ergal

By a sight change in the accented vowel:
"vorpal" (from "Jabberwocky")
"corporal" might also work

Answer 2

with orange,
LOZENGE?
DOOR-HINGE?


and with purple ,

JURPLE

HIRPLE (is a British word, which means "to walk lamely or hobble".)

CURPLE (is a word out of Scotland, which refers to the hindquarters of a horse. The current Shorter OED lists 'curple' dating from 1591. )

Perhaps "NURPLE" could also be said to rhyme with purple, but I can't find any indication that Nurple is a proper English word. However, there exists such a drink as a "PURPLE NURPLE"

Answer 3

Revenge, Turtle

Answer 4

Every one knows that nothing rymes with orange. Only if you make up a word, but that still doesn't count.

Answer 5

No, nothing rhymes with those words

Answer 6

Same thing as silver

Answer 7

LOW RANGE RIMES WITH ORANGE

Answer 8

Strange, people.
no but maple is one

Answer 9

Nothing....
weird huh? just one of those things..

Answer 10

maybe with some imagination "inch"