What rhymes with orange?

Question

I can't think of anything. Must be having a bad day.

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" 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 used). 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

These are 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

Answer 2

There is a word chilver that I think I saw on QI I think it was something to do with an animal. Don't recall it all but it may have been a cat or sheep.
New words are invented all the time. Perhaps if a word and meaning are circulated enough we will have a word to rhyme with orange and free it to be exploited by poets and song lyricists everywhere.
Wikipedia has a source of English words which do not rhyme.

Answer 3

No words rhyme with orange.

Answer 4

Words that don't rhyme with anything (not entirely true, but the words they rhyme with are usually not in use anymore) :
angst
gulf
rhythm
sixth
wolf
orange
silver
purple
month
monster
reptile
dangerous
marathon
discombobulate

Answer 5

cringe or syringe. I think people are usually confused by trying to use the whole of orange ie borange or forange, when its only the last part that needs to rhyme!

Answer 6

orange has got no rhyming words

Answer 7

Nothing actually ryhmes with orange. Not too sure about this, but I
seem to recall, orange is the only word that you can't actually rhyme

Answer 8

i remember somebody tellin me that ornge and silver does not have ne actual rhymes. but does the word shiver rhym with silevr? didnt think so either.....try rearranging ur words to get some other word at the end to rhyme!
really works

Answer 9

Yeah, you can't rhyme anything truly with orange, or silver for that matter.

Answer 10

i agree a rhyme usually only refers to the last syllable otherwise how on earth would the writer of 'supercalifragalisticexpialidocious' (?) ever have managed to finish the song?.