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Nothing rhymes with orange. Strangely, three of the four words in English with no rhymes are colors:
orange
purple
silver
month
orange
purple
silver
month
According to RhymeZone.com and the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary, no words rhyme with orange and silver.
Below is the explanation from Ask Oxford:
Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).
The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.
Below is the explanation from Ask Oxford:
Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).
The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.
Give me one that rhymes with silver and I'll tell you one that rhymes with orange.
Although the "Oxford Dictionary" states there is no rhyming word for Orange, a word called "horange" has been created as a word that can rhyme with orange and can also make orange seem cool. Definitely weird. Its pronounced like orange but with the "ho" part sounding like "ho" from "hot".
So there is really a word that rhymes with Orange....but its not officially a word in Oxford's standard!
So there is really a word that rhymes with Orange....but its not officially a word in Oxford's standard!
There is also another meaning
HORANGE = "conjunction or preposition that pertains to anything that is good, evil, bad, cool, or monkey"
HORANGE = "conjunction or preposition that pertains to anything that is good, evil, bad, cool, or monkey"
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