What rhymes with 'purple'?

Question

I need to crack the final verse of a poem. I've got good words to go with 'whopper' and 'throb', but nothing for 'purple'.

Answer 1

First, if you absolutely NEED a true "perfect rhyme", that is, a words whose sounds from the accented vowel to the end all match your first word EXACTLY, there are only two (see below).

But these are very rare, and probably not very usable for your purposes . So your best best would be to rewrite your poem to place a word with more rhyme possibilities in that 'rhyme position'.

The words (with proper spelling), are both Scottish dialectal words:

* curple - hind quarters or rump or a horse
http://www.answers.com/topic/curple

* hirple - to walk with a limp
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/hirple.html
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But fortunately, as other answers have hinted, it is very likely that you can find a very usable "NEAR rhyme" in which MOST of the sounds match exactly (esp. the vowels), and any other sounds are reasonably close. Note that good poets constantly use near rhymes.

Now some of these might be VERY close, others a bit more distant. Which will actually work depends on how you use it in YOUR poem, so you'll have to test them your actual poetic lines to be sure.
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Best possibilities in this case -- match all but the second /p/, and try to get a close substitute for that:

using /b/ instead of /p/ ('same sound' except /b/ uses the voice)
* burble, gerbil, herbal, verbal

/f/ for /p/ (nearly the same, except instead of stopping the air, you let a little through)
* purfle

/v/ (like /f/, but uses voice)
* serval, servile [American pronunciation]
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Other sounds made at almost the same point in the mouth

/t/ and /d/
* curtal, fertile, hurtle, kirtle, spurtle, turtle, myrtle, curdle, girdle, hurdle

/th/ (with and without voice) - could work, but I don't think there ARE any!

/k/ and /g/
* circle, burgle, gurgle, tergal

/m/
* thermal, epidermal

/n/
* colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, hibernal, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, maternal, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal
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More distant, might work in SOME cases

/sh/
* commercial, contoversial

/j/-sound
* Vergil

/s/
* bursal, hirsile, rehearsal, reversal, universal, tercel (a male hawk, NOT the car!)

/-/ (no sound)
* demurral, intramural, mural, neural, puerile, plural, rural
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The one word I know that matches all sounds EXCEPT the /L/, and which might work is "sherpa"

Finally, it sometimes works to match (or very nearly match) all the consonants, and use a near VOWEL, e.g.,
* carpal, mortal, portal

Answer 2

This was on QI a while ago, I think there's a Scottish word 'hurple' that means to walk with a limp!

Answer 3

My dad has a poem:

Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
And so is maple syrple.

Answer 4

Apparently nothing rhymes with purple, or orange or silver.

Answer 5

I've done the mouse-clicking for you. Have a look here:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AumQ6R18pr78OlbKHAQiNKZIBgx.;_ylv=3?ps=3&p=rhymes+with+purple&pn=&scope=subject&mc=&fltr=uk_&tab=0&asktime=&save_search=1&st=1

Answer 6

Burple... ha ha. I heard it on tv once, it's a cross between blue and purple.

Answer 7

Nurple. Anyone given a purple nurple by their "mates" at school will vouch for that...

Answer 8

Nothing ryhmes with it but you should find a word that sounds a little like it like turtle.

Answer 9

Burp 'll, as in "A Burp'll relieve your flatulence".

Answer 10

Nurple.