Hi! maybe this will help. There really isn't one singe everyday word that rhymes with orange...read on:
Rhyme
It is widely accepted that no single English word is a true rhyme for orange, though there are half rhymes such as lozenge, flange, or porridge.[2] . Although sporange, a variant of sporangium, is an eye rhyme for orange, it is not a true rhyme as its second syllable is pronounced with an unreduced vowel [-ændʒ], and often with stress.
However, there are proper nouns which are true rhymes, including Blorenge, a hill in Wales, and Gorringe, a surname. US Naval Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg who discovered Gorringe Ridge in 1875[3], 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."
Some nonce words have been coined specifically to rhyme with orange, such as:
grorange — a blend of green and orange (occurs in a Mario Brothers novel)
borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality" (coined by comedian Ross Noble on the Triple J Ross & Terri show).
Compounds or sequences of words may give true or near rhymes in some accents. Examples include door-hinge, torn hinge, or inch, a wrench.
Enjambment can also provide for rhymes. One example is Willard Espy's poem, "The Unrhymable Word: Orange":
The four eng-
ineers
Wore orange
brassieres.
An even more strained example by Tom Lehrer relies on the New York-New Jersey accent's way of pronouncing orange as "ar-ange":
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.
Composers Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel contrived a rhyme in the song "Oranges Poranges". It was sung by the Witchiepoo character (played by Billie Hayes) on the show H.R. Pufnstuf.[4]
Oranges poranges, who says,
oranges poranges, who says,
oranges poranges, who says?
there ain't no rhyme for oranges!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)#Rhyme
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