What is a word the rhymes with orange?

Answer 1

First, Slippery Jim has misread the links he lists -- "poringer" is indeed a word, "poringe" is NOT. (On one of the pages some suggests MAKING it a word; the other page, the "poringe" in the heading is a typo, as is made clear by the text that follows.)


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

The following is a list of English words without rhymes, i.e. a list of words in the English language which rhyme with no other English words in the sense that they are pronounced in the same way from the vowel sound of the main stressed syllable onwards.

It is sometimes said that the words orange, purple, and silver are the only words which rhyme with no other words. However, the words sporange, curple(another name for the buttocks, in scottish, the word for the hindquarters of a horse, Hirple is a British word, which means to walk lamely or hobble), and chilver have been cited as rhymes for these words. That is not to say that there are no rhymeless words, however; there are in fact many, including such words as marathon and discombobulate. If one restricts the list to words of just one or two syllables, however, the list is fairly short. What follows is an attempt at such a list.


One-syllable English words without rhymes
angst - this is in reality a German word, that has slid into the English language, so it is doubtful whether it should be included, here.
breadth
bulb—although the OED lists culb, a retort
depth
film
glimpsed
gulf (although in some dialects this is pronounced to rhyme with 'wolf')
(**gulf rhymes with engulf, as in: "The fire engulfed the room")

month—disputed; some claim that oneth is a word, by analogy with second, third, while others note that the logical analogy is with "twoth" and "threeth". The mathematical expression "n+1th" is one place where this rhyme can be used. Also, millionth, billionth etc.
mulcts
pint
ninth
rhythm
scalp **palp see wikitionary palp
sculpts
sixth
twelfth Can be loosely rhymed with stealth
width with**
wolf (although in some dialects 'gulf' is pronounced to rhyme with wolf)
warmth

Two-syllable English words without rhymes
angry—although it may be rhymed with its antonym, unangry
April
baggage **cabbage
monster
chimney
garbage
luggage
orange Can be loosely rhymed with door hinge and porridge
Pizza Can be loosely rhymed with Condoleezza
purple Can be loosely rhymed with tractor pull
reptile Can be loosely rhymed with 'turnstile'
serpent **repent
silver **sliver, shiver, liver

Answer 3

I don't have and answer but I learned quite a bit! I've always wanted to make up a word to rhyme with orange.

Answer 4

No words rhyme with Silver either.

Answer 5

delusion. that's really not about the Black Plague. inspect snopes. they have an excellent rationalization. briefly, the nursery rhyme did not take position until eventually countless hundred years after the plague. The version that toddlers sing now is not even on the brink of the unique.

Answer 6

None. No words rhyme with "purple," "orange," or "silver."

Answer 7

Cringe

Answer 8

There are no words that ryme with orange

Answer 9

"Porringe" -a slightly archaic word (an old variant of porringer , a soup bowl )and a surname!

Answer 10

storage. and depending on the meaning- foliage can somewhat match too. :))