why doesn't anything rhyme with orange?

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

* If you look up previous questions on Yahoo, several answers offered "door hinge" as a phrase that rhymes. Another referred to Eminem or some other rapper who found ways to make it rhyme.

* Another person listed "silver" and "purple" as other colors that don't have rhymes. These syllable combinations are not used by other words, so they don't have rhymes unless you put together words to make the same sound sequentially.

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Rhyme
It is a common misconception that Orange is one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The Wiktionary defines a rhyme as:

"Two words are rhymes if they are stressed on the same syllable, counting from the end of the words, and are pronounced identically from the vowel in their stressed syllable to the end."[1]

Thus, for a word to rhyme with orange it does not need to have the full sound 'orange' at the end of it, it only needs the sound 'range'. Though some pronounce it 'Ohr-enge', the European pronunciation is 'Ohr-inge', meaning that any word ending with the sound 'inge' will rhyme with orange. There are, however, two lesser-known 'complete' pronunciations. Blorenge is one, and it is a mountain range and town in Wales. The second is Gorringe, which is a surname.

For those who do not believe it rhymes, the closest approximation is door-hinge, although torn hinge, or inch, a wrench, and flange [2] 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 a kumquat and an orange, the converse hybrid of the orangequat.
borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality" (a coinage of comedian Ross Noble on the Triple J Ross & Terri show).
florange — to invent something that there is a need for.
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."
In the song "Business," Eminem rhymes "oranges" with "hinges" and "syringes."

Oh God, Saddam's got his own Laden
With his own private plane, his own pilot
Set to blow college dorm room doors off the hinges
Oranges, peach, pears, plums, syringes
In another song "Role Model", Eminem rhymes "orange" four times.

I'm dumb enough to walk in a store and steal:
So I'm dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn Hill:
Some people only see that I'm white, ignorin skill:
Cause I stand out like a green hat with a orange bill:
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Suggested Rhyme: Strange orange grange

Answer 3

Some words in the english language just don't ryhme...After all, a word doesn't have to ryhme to be in the english language. Besides orange, the word color also doesn't ryhme.

Answer 4

Because then you wouldn't be forced to come with creative wording, and Crayola would be out of business making up names of shades of hues that once were colors.

Answer 5

Reminds me of the old knock-knock joke:

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say Banana!

Answer 6

it ends in ange....and i dont think anythink rhymes with that...haha okay i dont make sense =)

Answer 7

becauise "anything" rhymes with bring, sing and ding-a-ling

Answer 8

Because God made it that way.
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