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Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).

The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.

2006-08-09 05:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by Pat 4 · 0 0

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.

Orange does have a word that rhymes with it, Blorenge, a mountain range in Wales.

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 (@) .
Tom Lehrer once rhymed "orange" in the verse:

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.
This is an example of extreme enjambment and the New York-New Jersey accent's way of pronouncing orange as "ar-ange." Similar was Willard Espy's poem, "The Unrhymable Word: Orange":

The four eng-
ineers
Wore orange
brassieres.
The name of US Naval Commander H. H. Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg who discovered Gorringe Ridge in 1875, also somewhat rhymes with orange, which led Arthur Guiterman to quip in "Local Note":

In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."

2006-08-09 06:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 1 0

There is no word that rhymes with orange, unless you make one up like porringe. There are some half rhymes though. Great word to start with if you are playing that rhyming game as you are guaranteed to win.

2006-08-09 05:56:37 · answer #3 · answered by MuddyRadish 1 · 0 1

there is NO word that rhymes with orange is the English language.

2006-08-09 05:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by ferniemagernie7 2 · 0 1

The closest I can get is 'poranger', rhymes with oranger.

A poranger is a pan that sits inside another pan. The outer pan contains water that can be heated to boiling while the food you are heating in the inner pan cannot get hotter than 100 C, so does not become over-cooked or burn to the pan bottom.

2006-08-09 06:00:26 · answer #5 · answered by narkypoon 3 · 0 1

Orange - Blorange

Purple - Hirple, Curple, Twerp'll

2006-08-09 05:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

There notoriously isn't one. However, there's a place in Wales called "Blorenge". And an old word for a pot to make porridge is 'porringer'. Maybe somebody could argue that a verb meaning 'to make porridge' would be 'to porringe'.

2006-08-09 05:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by Erin K 1 · 1 0

Blorenge, a mountain range in Wales.

2006-08-09 06:04:52 · answer #8 · answered by rnbwgrl 2 · 1 0

silly question... nothing rhymes with orange

2006-08-09 05:57:15 · answer #9 · answered by wwinegarden 2 · 0 1

There isnt - its like purple, has no rhyme

2006-08-09 05:55:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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