Is that right?
2007-03-20 01:13:33 · 34 answers · asked by Yahooer 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
You're right, there isn't - not a common noun, anyway.
Syringe doesn't rhyme with it, any more than 'tragic' rhymes with 'logic'. 'Lozenge' is cheating - try to put them both into a poem as supposed rhymes, and you'll see what I mean.
'Flange' and 'range' don't even rhyme with each other, let alone rhyme with 'orange'. 'Flange' rhymes with the first syllable of 'Ganges', as in the river; 'range' rhymes with 'strange'. Neither rhymes with 'orange'.
There is, however, the Blorenge, the name of an area in Wales, which is perhaps the only word in English that rhymes with 'orange'. And it only rhymes with 'orange' if the stress is on the first syllable. Good luck making up a poem that makes that rhyme pay off.
Despite what someone says above, 'chimney' does have a rhyme in English - 'niminy-piminy', meaning 'footlingly precise' or 'needlessly pedantic', kind of like this answer. Also, 'circus' rhymes with 'work us', at least in some accents. Just thought I'd mention it.
2007-03-21 15:41:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer is no, there are zero words in the English language that phonetically rhyme with orange. The same is true for purple and silver as well.
But depending on what part of the country you are from... door-hinge rhymes with orange.
2007-03-20 03:16:29 · answer #2 · answered by Rob S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct there are many words that have no equal rhymes however, they do have what is called a slant rhyme. Slant rhymes are words that the english language offers as a close rhyme here are a few for Orange- lozenge, boring, forage, porridge, door-hinge
2007-03-23 05:18:30 · answer #3 · answered by Imperator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many words haven't any rhymes, however the widely stated ones, orange, pink, month, and silver, all do have rhymes, albeit very arcane ones. Wikipedia, i've got faith, has a mind-blowing checklist of non-rhymable English words.
2016-12-18 18:37:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, that IS right! There ISN'T a word, in the English language, that rhymes, with "ORANGE"!
2007-03-20 01:17:46 · answer #5 · answered by Spike 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-20 01:23:04 · answer #6 · answered by cuddles_gb 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Blorenge? It's a big welsh hill. I know it's a proper noun..but I gave it a go?
Very interesting - here are some other words without rhymes, in case you're interested:
chimney
circus
different
hostage
justice
laundry
luggage
monster
month
olive
pint
pizza
promise
purple
silver
surfer
transfer
"pint" is in there! Fancy that!
2007-03-20 02:38:02 · answer #7 · answered by viv 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Orange rhymes with sporange (of sporangium, the little capsule or receptacle that holds spores in certain species of fungi, molds, and ferns). Also rhyming with orange are related words in botany: hypnosporange, macrosporange, and megasporange.
2007-03-20 01:38:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Lozenge
2007-03-20 03:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by colin050659 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a rhyme for purple. I remember it from a short poem that goes....
Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
So is maple syruple
2007-03-22 06:21:09 · answer #10 · answered by Pilot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋