Filth rhymes with both spilth, which is the quantity lost when a drink is spilled (or the spilling itself), and tilth, meaning hard work or labor.ġ3.

Film rhymes with pilm, an old southern English word for dust or fine powder.ġ2. False rhymes with valse, which is an alternative name for a waltz, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.ġ1. Dunce rhymes with punce, a dialect word for flattened, pounded meat, or for a sudden hard kick, among other definitions.ġ0. But there is demi-vierge, another French loanword used as an old-fashioned name for a unchaste young woman-or, as Merriam-Webster explains, “a girl … who engages in lewd or suggestive speech and usually promiscuous petting but retains her virginity.” It literally means “half-virgin.”ĩ. Concierge is a direct borrowing from French, so the number of English words it can rhyme with is already limited. If that’s too obscure, why not try rhyming it with murcous-a 17th century word meaning “lacking a thumb.”Ĩ.

Circus has a homophone, cercus, which is the name of a bodily appendage found on certain insects, and so rhymes with cysticercus, another name for a tapeworm larva. Circle rhymes with hurkle, an old dialect word meaning “to pull your arms and legs in towards your body,” as well as both heterocercal and homocercal, two zoological terms describing the tails of fish that are either asymmetrical or symmetrical, respectively.ħ. Chaos rhymes with naos, a name for the innermost part of a Greek temple, and speos, an Egyptian tomb built into a cave.Ħ. Bulb rhymes with culb, an obscure 17th century word for a retort or a barbed reply.ĥ. But that doesn’t mean it’s devoid of a rhyme there’s also greige, the name for the dull color of undyed fabric.Ĥ. Beige is pronounced so that it sounds more like the first syllable of Asia than it does similarly spelled words like age, gauge, stage, and rage. Angst partially rhymes with both phalanxed, meaning “arranged in rows,” and thanksed, an old word meaning “given thanks to.”ģ. Acrid rhymes with epacrid (in some pronunciations), a name for any plant of the genus Epacris, most of which are found in Australia.Ģ. In fact, despite often finding their way onto lists of notoriously unrhymable words, all of the words listed here do have rhymes in English-just so long as bizarre dialect words and obscure scientific jargon are allowed.ġ. So although it might all depend on your accent, on how obscure a word you’re willing to accept, and on precisely where the stress falls in the word (because sporange can either rhyme with orange or be pronounced “spuh- ranj”), it seems there actually is a rhyme for orange. But even if proper nouns like surnames and place names are excluded, that still leaves sporange, an obscure name for the sporangium, which is the part of a plant that produces its spores. And so does Blorenge, the name of a hill in south Wales. But in fact, the English surname Gorringe-as in Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, captain of the USS Gettysburg-rhymes with orange. You’ll no doubt have heard the old fact that nothing rhymes with orange.

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