what are some words that don't rhyme?

Question

music is the only word i can think of. can you give me other words that don't rhyme?

Answer 1

There is a myth about that only a handful of words have no rhymes. Not so.

I will assume you are speaking of "PERFECT rhyme" (in which EVERY sound from the vowel of the accented syllable to the end of the word must match EXACTLY), since by allowing a few sounds that don't quite match you can find some sort of "near rhyme" for ANY English word.

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). There are hundreds if not thousands of words of three or more syllables which have no perfect rhyme


So, let's narrow the discussion to words with one or two syllables. There are only a few of the first... a great many of the second.

Of these, the most well-known 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 about 100 words below is just first part of my first effort (I omitted anything after f- !), 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 couple of notes on this list -

1) These words 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, since in that case only the LAST syllable needs to be matched.)

2) Since pronunciation varies between dialects/accents --especially the pronunciation of vowel sounds-- 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".


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

Answer 2

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?) The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.) There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?) There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out) A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is) ; A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.) Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Answer 3

Orange

Answer 4

Purple. orange & silver. Words that do not rhyme with any other words.

Answer 5

Wednesday

Answer 6

some of the answers above are incorrect, just so you know.
but one that nobody else has named is "month."
I've been told I'm wrong with a few others I tried to use for an assignment in HS, but I never bothers to find out why they don't work: ninja, luggage, chimney.

Answer 7

Well... orange of course... purple, silver, and I don't think circus rhymes with anything...= )

Answer 8

Festering
Canoe
Temperature
Pus
Cantonese
Tampon
Frog
banana
Squid
Herpes
Smegma

.......Im bored with this.....is that enough?
Oh...you wanted words that dont rhyme with any other words.....sheesh....It might have helped if you worded the question better

Answer 9

Purple is a well-known one.

Answer 10

Orange and silver...and supercalifragilisticexpealidocious....