Quick! I need a word that ryhmes with...?

Question

Orange

Answer 1

Yippy Ki Ya!

There really isn't one.

There is a comic:
http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/


AND...

FROM: http://rhymecon.tripod.com/id14.html


RHYMES for ORANGE




Ain't got no degree in English Lit. I are a injuneer,
but a rhyme is a rhyme as long as if it just sounds like a rhyme to my ear.
They say ORANGE is the paradigm
of all words what ain't got no rhyme,
so they say.
But -


The rancher fenced in some more range,
then wolfed down beef stew with an ORANGE.
Said the cook, "I'm not merry
with a fire on the prairie;
I'd much rather cook on a store range."
or
The fruit she brought in the door, ranges
from lemons to grapefruit to ORANGES.


But now let's try something completely different.


RHYMING ORANGE BY DOUBLE RHYMES


The Bob4 Unabashed Dictionary says
Rhyme (noun) A couple of syllables or groups of syl's. that just plain sound like a rhyme.


Dr. Huffenpugh, Prof. of English Lit., has a different definition. He says that two rhyming sounds must start with stressed (or accented) syllables, each beginning with a different sound (a vowel with a consonant or else two different consonants), followed by any number of sounds THAT ARE IDENTICAL.
Such as: Rhyme rhymes with Time.
Rhyming rhymes with Timing.
Rhymingly rhymes with Timingly.
Rhyminglyexpealidoscious rhymes with - well anyway, take it from there.


Sorry, Professor, but your DEFINITION is DEFICIENT. I know in my heart that those following sounds DO NOT HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL as long as they themselves rhyme. A bad hair day = “The sad girl had a bad curl.” It's a snappy rhyme isn't it? But to meet the professor's definition it doesn't rhyme unless it's something like "A bad girl is a sad girl" and that sounds much more boring to my ear.

In about the second grade (when “church” was not considered a dirty word in public schools) we sang a pleasant little song that rhymed “Oh come to the church in the wildwood” with “No place is so dear to my childhood.” Note that you'd need a word like Wildhood or Childwood to meet the prof's definition but it sure sounds like a perfect rhyme to me. The first syllables rhyme and the second syllables rhyme; I'll call this a Double Rhyme.


I've looked through some poetry anthologies and found very few examples of double rhymes. In "Like the Idalion Queen" William Drummond formed a rhyme by calling “fair flowers” his “paramours.”

And for another example, here's a 4 century old poem that rhymes "woo thee" with "unto me". Click (and then press BACK button) for the entire poem because there's something really interesting about it.

And in a not-so-good example, in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Alfred Lord Tennyson rhymed "Half a league onward" with "rode the six hundred." "-Ward" isn't identical to "-dred" but at least they sound KIND OF like a rhyme. I suspect the reason people accept such a bad rhyme in one of the best known poems by the poet laureate of England, knighted by Queen Victoria, is that the FIRST syllables, "hun-" and "on" rhyme (within normal vowel variations).

So what's all this got to do with oranges? Well,


The plumber installed a floor flange,
Then gobbled his hot dog and orange.
(that's a type of pipe fitting).


The carpenter oiled the door hinge,
Then gobbled his sandwich and orange.


The traveler rowed down the Dordogne
To eat crepe suzette and an orange.
(a river in France, pronounced Dordenje)


The doctor prescribed Ascorbenge
Then drank his Champaign with an orange.
(a medical word I just made up. The RhymeCon rhyming theorem states "If you can't find a word that rhymes, just invent one.")


Now, if you're a rhymer think of all you can do with double rhymes. Could you find rhymes for graveyard or midnight or gourmets? Of course! Click and then come BACK and I'll see you right here in a couple of minutes.

ALLITERATION & ASSONANCE


Hey, that bunch of B's was also a ridiculous example of alliteration, a repetition of a consonant to get a special effect. For a far better example how about this really neat line from Poe's The Raven: "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me -." I could use a "j" sound as the consonant and make up a line about "Where the ORANGE Ganges discharges her silt." A repetition of vowel sounds, like "The awful ORANGE of the owls," whatever that means, is called assonance. But I searched some poetry books without finding a single example. Can anyone out there help me?

But for an example I wrote myself, try "I owe my whole soul".

But alliteration is sometimes considered to be a rhyme of a different kind. And if used well, it can add a lot to a poem.

TRIPLE RHYMES?
Well, why not? I even have an example, rhyming "learn to be" with "eternity" (Click) but if you don't come BACK to this spot you'll hurt my feelings).

And here's something kind of interesting. I wanted to use the word eternity so at first I tried rhyming it with maternity but it sounded flat and it took me a while to figure out why. I was rhyming -ternity with -ternity which isn't a rhyme; it's an identity. This isn't just a rule some guy made up. RhymeCon's theorem states: A good rhyme sparkles to the ear. A bad rhyme just kinda lies there flat.


FINGERNAILS- ON- THE- CHALKBOARD RHYMES


"Baby bear, instead of porridge, asked momma and pappa for an ORANGE" is just a bad rhyme. To me it sounds plain sloppy. I know that bad rhymes, masquerading as "near" rhymes, are in fashion today, but not with me. (Still let's be happy not everybody thinks like me.)

RHYMING ORANGE WITH PROPER NAMES


To find a rhyme- (have you no shame?) - just make up a proper name.
Want to rhyme “forthwith?” (probably not, but) just name somebody Smith.


No less a poetry giant than Sir Walter Scott rhymed “backward turn” with “Kilchurn” without even saying what or who Kilchurn was.
So why can't I say “Mrs. Forange ate an ORANGE?” (except it sounds boring).
Better might be


“Monsieur Pierre LeFranje
tasted his first ORANGE.
When asked in great haste
“Tell us, how does it taste?”
he replied “It tastes rahther strange.”


(I'm cheating. By forcing the stress onto the 2nd syllable I've essentially invented a new word, rhymingwise.)


Click for a (not very good) example of seven proper names used as rhymes, and most of them even sound phony. then click BACK to Oranges and I'll see you here.

Now about that rule that rhyming sounds must begin with a stressed syllable, here's a trick that can add a huge number of good rhymes to your repertoire. Some words of three syllables or more can have more than one stressed syllable. And most rhyming dictionaries don't take full advantage of this fact. ORANGE has but two syllables with the stress on OR. But ORANGES has three syllables, stressed on the OR but with a secondary stress on the GES - just say it aloud! The word radishes has a secondary stress on the last syllable. "An excellent breakfast is ORANGES cooked up with a half dozen radishes." See? It rhymes, though I won't guarantee the recipe. But for more examples click and then click BACK to return to this spot.

INTERNAL RHYMES

I usually think of rhymes as coming at the end of a line or the end of a word. But there are also internal rhymes.
"Oh, strange is the ORANGE you painted your house - " (See? oh, strange and ORANGE-). That might be a good first line for a poem and I don't plan to use it so you're welcome to it. (Send it in if you'd like.) Here's a line I invented : "We sat down in the dust and our eyes met two rusty hooks on the wall near the ceiling." The rhyming syllables are dust and rust but the're not at the end of the line and rust isn't even at the end of a word! I like rhymes like this because they keep the momentum going and you don't have to stop and pause after every rhyme.

Answer 2

There is No Word in the English language that ryhmes with orange. Absolutely none. Sorry.

Answer 3

I was always told that nothing exactly rhymes with orange. So you can get close but you aren't going to find an exact sound matching word like dog/fog/log or lake/bake/cake.

Answer 4

Door hinge

Answer 5

There aren't any words that rhyme with orange!

Answer 6

orange

Answer 7

sorry, no such thing. try rhyming purple instead. lol

Answer 8

reminds me of a knock knock joke :P
um....

soarin'?

Answer 9

portage

Answer 10

deranged