Why does nothing rhyme with orange?

Question

My dictionary is very thick. It's full of words. Thousands of words. But nothing that rhymes with Orange. Why is this?

I don't know where your from but Range and Lozenge doesn't sound like orange evenly closely to me.

Answer 1

In fact, there are far more words that lack perfect rhymes that you may realize -- it's just that ones like "orange" and "silver" are so common and have been talked about so much.

Actually, there is another reason why a word like "orange" is a bit less likely to have a rhyme than many other short words. "Orange" is not a 'native English' word -- it does not stem from either of the two major roots of English vocabulary -- Germanic (Old English) and Latin (much of it through French).

What I mean is this. If hundreds or thousands of words are taken from the same original language-source, it's not too surprising that there are many clusters of words in those sources that have similar sound-patterns. But the word "orange" --the name for a plant that is not found in England-- though it came to us through French goes back to a very non-European source (Italian took from Arabic. . . probably originally going back to Dravidian).

Answer 2

Hmmm, you are right. Orange doesn't really have anything that rhymes with it. But I found this which is interesting.

Rhyme
Orange is notable as one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The closest "real" approximation is door-hinge, although torn hinge, or inch, a wrench, and flange [1] have also been suggested.

Some made-up words have rhymed with orange:

grorange — a blend of green and the color orange (found in a Mario Brothers novel)
korange — a hypothetical hybrid of the orange and the kumquat
borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality" (a coinage of comedian Ross Noble on the Triple J Ross & Terri show).
atgrynge — the plural of "atgry" , an alternative name for the commercial at symbol (@) .

Answer 3

No, Door Henge rhymes with orange.

Answer 4

But just because this word has no 'perfect rhyme' doesn't mean we can't rhyme with it. Using slant rhyme, we can rhyme with this word anyway

so actaully: orange - porridge, door-hinge

hehe

Answer 5

Because there doesn't HAVE to be a rhyme for every word.

Answer 6

Range, door-hinge and lozenge

Answer 7

"Nothing" doesn't rhyme with "orange". Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Answer 8

That is pretty funny. And true...well, guess what I'm dong for the rest of the work day...?

(Morange, porange.......hmmm)

I'll get back to you.

Answer 9

Umm...range???