# Words w/no rhyme **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 29, 2000, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800 "2000-03-29T08:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/1 "2000-03-29T08:19:00Z")
Is there a rhyme for “month”? Besides the infamous “orange” what other common words have no rime? ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/2 "2000-03-29T08:21:00Z")
Silver ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/3 "2000-03-29T08:38:00Z")
The [Semantic Rhyming Dictionary](http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html) says nothing does. Your trophy should arrive any day. Of course, they also say nothing rhymes with “Orange” and off the top of my head I can think of three: Hinge, Syringe, and of course Orange. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/4 "2000-03-29T09:08:00Z")
To find a rhyme for ‘silver’ or any rhymeless rhyme Requires a lot of will, ver- Bosity, and time. Thenk yew. _keeping an eye on the counter_ * * * All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don’t know who you are… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/5 "2000-03-29T10:48:00Z")
huh? orange rhymes with syringe and hinge? not when I say them - “ange” sounds different from “inge” - or is that just me? * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/6 "2000-03-29T12:55:00Z")
I’ve heard that “purple” is another one of those rhyme-less words. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Coleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dfb087/32.png) [@Paul\_Coleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_Coleman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/7 "2000-03-29T12:56:00Z")
I imagine there’s a host of science/technical terms that are stand-alones. I mean, what rhymes with deoxyribonucleic acid, or for that matter riboflavin, or ASA? Language is growing and evolving at a rapid pace, with new technologies and globalization creating an array of hybrid words. Poetry, I’m afraid, will never be the same. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/8 "2000-03-29T13:22:00Z")
Month rhymes with ‘(n+1)th’. But it’s not very poetic is it? ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/9 "2000-03-29T13:39:00Z")
[Word Oddities & Trivia](http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html) is good for these kind of questions and has a section on [rhyming words etc](http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words3.html) and gives several examples of words which rhyme with orange. ---
**Author:** ![Timothy\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Timothy\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timothy_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/10 "2000-03-29T13:52:00Z")
Okay, here’s my best shot: Yethderday, I kithed her one’th Chust as I did the previouth month It would theem she had no beef With thomeone without front teef. ## Before you prepare your firing squad, can I have a cigarette? 🙂 Are you educated, erudite and maybe a bit eccentric? Please help us test a [new web game](http://www.pyroto.com)! ---
**Author:** ![ASPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/11 "2000-03-30T05:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Danielinthewolvesden: > **Is there a rhyme for “month”? Besides the infamous “orange” what other common words have no rime?** [ul]**[li]Every word has it’s rhyme. Sometimes the rhyme is hard to find. Sometimes the find is not the kind that simpler minds would tend in time.**[/ul][/li]I gotta go for now, but I just wanned to spark serios consideration of how to vary the processes and expectations used to come up with rhymes! Get creative in a different way and you’ll find the rhyme—or I will later tell you what I came up with. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/12 "2000-03-30T13:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Oranges, poranges! > Who says? > Oranges, poranges! > There’s another one! > Oranges, poragnes! > Who says! > There ain’t no rhyme for “oranges” “Witchie-poo” sang that on _H.R. Puff’n’stuff_. * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![JoeyBlades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JoeyBlades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyBlades)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/13 "2000-03-30T14:04:00Z")
I always liked Alice Cooper’s solution to being faced with a word that’s hard to rhyme. From “School’s Out”: > [@](#): > > Well we got no class > And we got no principles > And we got no innocence > We can’t even think of a word that rhymes That’s why I think the man was a genius… ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/14 "2000-03-30T17:26:00Z")
Bah… oranges, schmoranges. ---
**Author:** ![Hunsecker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d78d45/32.png) [@Hunsecker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunsecker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/15 "2000-03-30T17:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I always liked Alice Cooper’s solution Or from Primus’ Mr. Know-it-all > [@](#): > > I am Mr. Know-it-all > I am so eloquent > Perfection is my middle name > And whatever rhymes with eloquent. ---
**Author:** ![ASPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/16 "2000-04-01T00:48:00Z")
Question: Originally posted by Danielinthewolvesden: …rhyme for “month”? …the infamous "orange?.. _As is suggested by some of the other posts above, remember we do not aim aim to rhyme words with words, per se, but sounds with sound, instead_ **What rhymes with m_on_th? I haven’t a h_un_ch! Wh’rhymes wit’ _oran[i/]ge? Hey, go ask L_aurren[i/]!** ---
**Author:** ![ASPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/17 "2000-04-01T00:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by ASPA: > > Lemmee aim to correct at least _some_ of my typos: > > **Wh’rhymes wit’ _oran_ge? > Hey, go ask L_aurren_!** ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/18 "2000-04-01T02:38:00Z")
I think you can add “desert” to the list of non-rhyming words. Oddly enough, in Spanish, it seems nothing rhymes with “anaranjado” either. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/19 "2000-04-01T02:41:00Z")
Penguin. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800/20 "2000-04-01T03:31:00Z")
What do you mean nothing rhymes with anaranjado? Enojado, cansado, anything with -ado (i.e. the participle of any -ar verb). Anyway, there is a rhyme for month, and what is more, it was discovered by the spooky Christina Rossetti herself, who wrote: How many weeks in a month? Four, as the swift moon runn’th. And rhymemaster Tom Lehrer contributed: Eating an orange While making love Makes for a bizarre enj- Oyment thereof. And finally, I remember a book in Sunday school that talked about waters (in the Garden of Eden) that were purple and “went churrrpple churrrple churrrple”). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-w-no-rhyme/9800.md?page=2)