Words with no rhymes

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Month
Silver
Bulb
Wolf
Walrus
Rhythm
Husband
Woman
Purple
Beige
Chaos
Acrid
Circle
Circus
Dunce
Concierge
False
Film
Music
Wasp
Width
Window
Angst
Orange

So, this is the definition they're using: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.

I'd narrow it ever further to identical sounds, because similar sounds means all bets are off - it'd be too easy.

Some just straight-up don't belong on the list:
Dunce rhymes with once
Circle
has a lot of exact rhymes, though I do not know what any of them are.

Some fit the very similar definition:
Orange rhymes tightly with syringe and lozenge but loosely with doorhinge.

I dunno, does husband rhyme with wristband?
 
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Does rhyming require that the rhyme be also a single word? Poets seem to think otherwise.

I know that my work'll
Come full circle,
For whatever may berserk us
will soon join the circus.
I'd like to go with 'em
And keep up the rhythm.
Now I open the window
And smell cooking - a skinned doe!
 
I'd say beige rhymes with sage.

Roger Miller said, "Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
And so is maple syrple."
 
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[...] Orange ... Orange rhymes tightly with syringe and lozenge but loosely with doorhinge [...]

It may not even be featured in this particular video, but Eminem mispronounces or stresses the last syllable of "porridge" in a way that creates the audible interpretation or illusion that the two words are dead-on companions in the rhyme department.

The obligatory language or shock-value warning with respect to almost any rap music...

Eminem proves there are lots of words that rhyme with orange
 
Does rhyming require that the rhyme be also a single word? Poets seem to think otherwise.

I know that my work'll
Come full circle,
For whatever may berserk us
will soon join the circus.
I'd like to go with 'em
And keep up the rhythm.
Now I open the window
And smell cooking - a skinned doe!
That's a pretty clever work around.


I'm more interested in the strictest of rhymes, since that's the most challenging.

Month has always been the poster-boy of rhymeless words but I'd be interested in an expanded list.
 
So are names not allowed for strict rhymes? Say I want to rhyme fathom. I don't think of any common noun rhyme for that, but the name Chatham can be in some places. Or there's talcum. Ogden Nash poems aside, I can only come up with Malcolm.
 
So are names not allowed for strict rhymes? Say I want to rhyme fathom. I don't think of any common noun rhyme for that, but the name Chatham can be in some places. Or there's talcum. Ogden Nash poems aside, I can only come up with Malcolm.
Clapham would work.

"I never thought I'd ever fathom
This girl I met from Clapham
She quoted Kant and Nietzsche
While I sneaked a double whisky..."
 
Stumbled across this list:



Month
Silver
Bulb
Wolf
Walrus
Rhythm
Husband
Woman
Purple
Beige
Chaos
Acrid
Circle
Circus
Dunce
Concierge
False
Film
Music
Wasp
Width
Window
Angst
Orange

So, this is the definition they're using: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.

I'd narrow it ever further to identical sounds, because similar sounds means all bets are off - it'd be too easy.

Some just straight-up don't belong on the list:
Dunce rhymes with once
Circle
has a lot of exact rhymes, though I do not know what any of them are.

Some fit the very similar definition:
Orange rhymes tightly with syringe and lozenge but loosely with doorhinge.

I dunno, does husband rhyme with wristband?
Rage seems ok for beige.
 
How about "siege"?

(As a word with no rhymes, that is--not as rhyming with "beige", of course. Unless we're taking some serious liberties.)
 
Somehow I had it in my head that "Liege" was only a name (city in Belgium, I think?) despite being reminded of the Fairport Convention album, Liege and Lief at the same time, and knowing that that was named specifically with words that were also names in their minds (Richard Thompson came up with the tirle IIRC). IOW I focussed on the latter quality, while completely ignoring the former.

Really, it's all the stupid rules and qualifiers that Dave came up with that's the real problem here! So I blame that.
 
Somehow I had it in my head that "Liege" was only a name (city in Belgium, I think?) despite being reminded of the Fairport Convention album, Liege and Lief at the same time, and knowing that that was named specifically with words that were also names in their minds (Richard Thompson came up with the tirle IIRC). IOW I focussed on the latter quality, while completely ignoring the former.

Really, it's all the stupid rules and qualifiers that Dave came up with that's the real problem here! So I blame that.
First came across it in Shakespeare I think.

WESTMORELAND

"My liege, this haste was hot in question, And many limits of the charge set down." Henry 4th

It is in the "Two Towers" LOTR but I dont remember the line being in the book.

 
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Somehow I had it in my head that "Liege" was only a name (city in Belgium, I think?) despite being reminded of the Fairport Convention album, Liege and Lief at the same time, and knowing that that was named specifically with words that were also names in their minds (Richard Thompson came up with the tirle IIRC). IOW I focussed on the latter quality, while completely ignoring the former.

Really, it's all the stupid rules and qualifiers that Dave came up with that's the real problem here! So I blame that.
Yes liege, pronounced leezhe means a feudal lord, whereas the Belgian city is lee-ehge.
 
Circle has a lot of exact rhymes, though I do not know what any of them are.
Most of the listed rhymes for "circle" are German words and surnames thereof. The only word in the OED that I've heard of rhyming is "hurkle" - a scots word meaning "to draw in the limbs and squat or crouch". It's an old word for sure, and may even be obsolete. But, at least iirc, it's in the OED.
 
Plinth seems like another challenging one.

As for Texas, Steve Miller Band committed the most egregious rhyme of Texas. Let that be today's rock trivia question.
 
It may not even be featured in this particular video, but Eminem mispronounces or stresses the last syllable of "porridge" in a way that creates the audible interpretation or illusion that the two words are dead-on companions in the rhyme department.

The obligatory language or shock-value warning with respect to almost any rap music...

Eminem proves there are lots of words that rhyme with orange
Back in the day, Nico was widely mocked and criticized by journalists for her rather unconventional pronunciations--particularly, the way she says "flower" in "We've Got the Gold":


flau-oo-ur. Cuz it's not like musicians have ever taken liberties with pronunciations and such to accommodate rhythmic and rhyming schemes. Also, autistic people sometimes employ unconventional pronunciations--I've taken heat a fair bit for prolonging double consonants--and Nico was fairly consistent with her unique pronunciations even outside of songs. Well, maybe not in the case of "flower", but with other words, yeah...

But with dialects we encounter a variety of different pronunciations for words which "proper" dictionaries seldom seem to account for. I suspect that a lot of purportedly unrhymable words cease to be such if we broaden our consideration to include the thousands of regional dialects.
 
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