which is the only english word that does not rhyme with any other word??

Answer 1

Sorry, this is mistaken -- if you mean 'rhyme' in the narrowest sense, there are MANY English words that have none

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I assume you are speaking of PERFECT rhyme, since by allowing a few sounds that don't quite match you can find a "near rhyme" for virtually ANY English word. (Also, since some near rhymes are close, others more distant, if you use "near rhymes", at exactly what point do you draw the line and say the word doesn't have ANY?)

So the following is based on perfect rhyme. For that the simple answer is that there are just a handful of one-syllable words that have none --I know of five (listed below)-- but when you look at longer words whose main stress is further from the end of the word there are MANY that have no perfect rhyme (I list just a handful of them below).


Here is a definition of "perfect rhyme":

"Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great, late; rider, beside her; dutiful, unbeautiful. Also called full rhyme, true rhyme."
http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html

Understanding this, the the accent is from the end of the word the more sounds there are that have to be exactly matched. Thus, there are MANY English words with the accent at least three syllables from the end for which there is no perfect rhyme.

As a practical matter, you can usually find excellent 'near rhymes' for these words, in which MOST of the sounds are the same, and poems use these all the time. For example: "discombobulate" has no perfect rhyme, but "populate" and "ovulate" are good near rhymes, since they differ only slightly in one consonant in the middle. (Note that p and v are close to b in sound; 'inoculate' would not be quite as good since its /k/ sound is not as close to the /b/sound.)

So, the discussion ought really to focus on words with one or two syllables. There are only a few of the first... a great many of the second.

Of these, the most commonly mentioned as having no rhymes are the color-words orange, purple, silver. In fact, there appear to be rhymes for the last two (hirple and chilver), though some may dismiss them as only existing in some dialects, not in "standard English". "Orange" should probably still be considered as non-rhyming since the only reasonable suggestions for rhymes are "door 'inge" ("door hinge" as pronounced in certain dialects) and "sporange". But according to the Oxford English Dictionary (often considered THE authority), the only pronunciation for this word is spuh-RANJ (with the accent on the SECOND syllable), which does NOT rhyme with English "orange" (accent on the FIRST syllable).

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One syllable words -- there are only a few one-syllable words with no rhymes (though you may include "orange" for those who pronounce it as "ornj"). This list may not be complete, but it should be close:

kiln (if the n is pronounced)
month
oink
pint
valve
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Two-syllable words with the accent on the first syllable. The list of well over 200 words below is my just the first few steps of my first effort, so it is VERY incomplete. Though I believe none of these can be exactly rhymed in "standard American English", I cannot vouch for every one of them.

A few considerations (that should ALWAYS be considered when working on rhymes):

1) The words below should ALL be pronounced with accent on the FIRST syllable! (Some have alternate uses of the word that are accented on the second syllable, but usually that form can be rhymed. Examples: OF-fense, DE-fense; if the accent is placed on the SECOND syllable, any word ending with -ense/-ence could work.)

2) Since pronunciation varies between dialects/accents --especially the pronunciation of vowel sounds-- so that some of these may end up having perfect rhymes in certain regions. For instance, in some dialects "awesome" rhymes with "blossom", and "auction" with "concoction".

3) English sometimes allow you to CREATE new or ad hoc words that would rhyme with some of these, such as "hatchless" for "matchless", "swordless" for "cordless". You might choose to remove some or all of the words ending in an "active suffix" like "-less".

4) This list is only of SINGLE-word rhymes; you might be able to make two-word expressions that would match. (I will, however, include accepted compound words as ONE word, e.g., "drainboard".)

5) I am excluding proper names (which are quite varied and unreliable!) from this list and from consideration as rhymes with them.

6) The list does not include other forms of the same word -- in a number of cases these would be additional 'rhymeless' words. For example, both "orbit" but "orbits" have no rhyme (not to mention the longer forms "orbiter" and "orbiting").

7) Again, these are only words lacking PERFECT rhymes, not usable near rhymes. For example, in a poem one might find "patient" works as a rhyme for "ancient", but to make a *perfect* rhyme requires a matching /n/ sound after the a.


absence, absent, accent, access, actress, advent, ancient, android,angry, anklet, aphid, arid, aspect, aspen, aspirin, astral, auction, auger, auspice, autumn, avid, awesome, awkward, axle
badger, bankrupt, basic, bastard, bottom, brackish, braless, brutish,budget, bugler, bungler, butcher
campus, capsule, carbine, carpal, cashless, childish, children, chimney, chintzy, comfort, compass, concert, conference, conga, convent, cordless, corporate, country, courage, cowboy, crimson, cruelty, cudgel, culprit
damsel, decal, different, difference, digest, dirndl, dolphin, drainage, drainboard, dreadnought, ducal
earthy, empress, empty, entrance, envy, equine, errand, ethics, exit, export, extra
fascist, faucet, featured, filming, fiscal, fitful, fixate, flimsy, foible, foppish, fortune, freshness, fruitful, furor
gadget, gangster, gargle, globule, grommet
happen, hapless, harness, harshness, harvest, headache, hermit,hopeless, hospice, hubris, hungry
igloo, import, infant, influx, inkpot, inlet, input, instance, instant,insult, irksome
jackass, jaundice, justice
larva, leprous, limit, limpid, listener, lively, livestock, luckless, luggage, luscious, lustrous
market, matchless, medic, merchant, message, milner, mistress, monster, morphine, music
nephron, nimbus, nonsense, nordic
oafish, object, office, offspring, olive, opera, orange, orbit,orchid, osprey, ostrich, oval
patience, peerage, perfect, perfume, pervert, picnic, piston, pixel, pizza, plankton, poison, postage, posture, potent, portent, pressure, pretext, program, promise, pueblo, publish, pungent, punish, purchase, putrid
rascal, reflux, reject, research, rhythm, rodent, roughage, rubric
salve, satchel, sausage, secret, seepage, sequin, sergeant, serpent, shameful, sinful, sixty, slippage, smugness, snorkel, sofa, starchy, strychnine,subject, substance, suffrage
tangent, temptress, tipster, tonnage, tonsils, torpid, traipsing,transient, transit, treacle, tubule, tuppence
uncial, uncle, unctuous, urchin, useful, useless
vengeance, vineyard, virile, vulgar
wallet, warble, warp, wasp, wastrel, watchful, wicked, winsome, wintry, wishful, wordless

Answer 2

silver rhymes with clever , ever ,fever,etc., I think it is a hard task to find out which is the word having no rhyming word .There are many words in English and we can not say which is that word

Answer 3

not sure if it's the only one - but the word orange doesn't rhyme with any other.

Answer 4

Orange? (Rememebr Witchiepoo on the Hr Puffnstuff show singing "Oranges? Poranges! Who says nothing rhymes with Oranges!?")

Answer 5

Orange.....
Yes...it's a fact
Orange is the only word inEnglish that dosent Rhyme with any other word...

Answer 6

There's actually a couple of them. Orange and purple are two. Not sure if there's more than that, though.

Answer 7

There is only and only one word that doesnt rhyme with any other word ..............the word is 'month'..............
this is according to official data..........

Answer 8

actually orange rhymes with range. or 'a range'

what about silver? catastrophe? fiasco?Chaos?

Answer 9

the word is "the"..i dont think nething rhymes with"the"

Answer 10

Silver, orange, and purple