What rhymes with orange?

Question

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Answer 1

strange

Answer 2

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.

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Answer 3

There aren't many words that don't rhyme orange is one of them. So are purple and yogurt. It's one of the English language quirks. Go figure.

Answer 4

Words that rhyme with orange:

syringe
your hinge
mortgage
storage

Answer 5

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_561509...

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.thefreedicti...
"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
For any of these (many odd) words you don't know, check http://www.thefreedictionary.com...

Answer 6

Something spoken in french. other countries could have stuff that when spoken in their language rhymes with orange. do some research and let me know what u find.

Answer 7

Hi, Jess
The answer is "Carnage"
or "Harness" even "Vonage" The name from the phone
service provider. Many people are saying purple do not ryhme with anything too. Purple ryhmes with "Erkle" The boy from the show "Family matters" it maybe spelled differently though.
I write poems so I can Help you in this area

I hope this help a little,

Peace!!!

Answer 8

Storage

Answer 9

Porridge

Answer 10

basically it depends whether your from the east coast and would pronounce it arange then it would kinda rhyme with strange....

Answer 11

Borange, storange...they aren't real words, but they rhyme.