We all learned back in elementary school that there are no words in the english language that rhyme with orange or purple. Although on a coloring sheet my teachers got a little creative, “Purple, Purple had to burble.” :dubious: So I’ve been wondering what other words in the english language don’t rhyme with anything?
Silver.
You never got a purple nurple in elementary school?
guitar
Sitar. 
Floccinaucinihilipilification?
Well, I can’t come up with any for either English or language…
Orange: Melange, Menage
Purple: Turtle
Angry… Hungry…?
“Roses are red, violets are blue
But violets are violet! It just isn’t true!
Pinkies are pink, but Greenland’s not green…
Oranges are orange, so what does it mean?
To call something blue when it’s not is to defile it…
But hey, what they heck, it’s hard to rhyme violet.”
–Dot’s Poetry Corner, Animaniacs
Oh dear. I just discovered that this isn’t the whole poem. I missed two lines.
Huh? - they just sound a bit similar.
The real answers are true rhymes:
Hurple - to walk with a limp
Blorange - a hill in Wales
Chilver - a ewe lamb
:smack: Grrr…
Kill the furryman!
I think you could rhyme turtle with purple and get away with it. Melange and menage aren’t pronounced anything like orange, though.
Depending on the particular pronunciation, “orange” can rhyme reasonably closely with “door-hinge”.
They are (sort of) if you use a French pronunciation, i.e., duck a l’orange is a wonderful melange.
Month
Roger Miller (may he rest in peace), came up with a great “purple” rhyme in his song “Dang Me”
“They say roses are red and violets are purple,
sugar is sweet and so in maple syrple.”
Mangetout - month – good one
How about bulb?
Orange sort-of rhymes with syringe
Brian
They say in English you can’t find
A word to rhyme with ‘month’
I tried and failed a hndred times
But did it the hundred and oneth
Not sure who wrote this, but it wasn’t me. I just half-remember it from ages ago.
These discussions tend to get bogged down into finely sliced opinions about what constitutes a ‘true’ rhyme, and different interpretations based on accent and pronunciation. I think for ‘orange’ a good poet could make usable rhymes out of words including ‘syringe’, ‘hinge’, ‘strange’ and ‘grange’, according to accent and pronunciation. There’s also caesura (line break) to consider, as it allows one to ‘cheat’ a little. I just (hastily) made up an example:
Be it white or brown or purple
I’d never wear an animal skin
So if I ever do wear fur, pull
The trigger and do me in