Words That Don't Rhyme With Any Other Words
Words With Nothing To Rhyme To...
To the best of my knowledge, there are 70 words in the English language which do not rhyme with any other words! They are (in alphabetical order):
A - Almond, Angry, Angst, Anxious, Aspirin
B - Bachelor, Breadth, Bulb, Bulbous
C - Calumny, Cannabis, Caveat, Chaos, Chimney, Chocolate, Circus, Citrus, Citizen, Condom
D - Denizen, Depth, Diamond, Different
E - Eighth, Elbow, Else, Empty, Engine
F - Fift, Film, Foible, Fugue
G - Galaxy, Glimpsed, Golf, Gulf
H - Hostage, Husband
I - Iron
J - Justice
K - ...
L - Laundry, Luggage
M - Monster, Month, Mulcts
N - Ninth, Neutron
O - Obvious, Of, Office, Olive, Orange
P - Pint, Pedant, Penguin, Pizza, Plankton, Plinth, Promise, Purple
Q - ...
R - Reptile
S - Sanction, Sandwich, Shadow, Silver
T - Transfer, Twelfth
U - ...
V - Vacuum
W - Width, Wolf
X - ...
Y - ...
Z - ...
So there ya go... all the known word in the English language that do not rhyme with any word in the dictionary (all 70 of 'em)... fascinating, huh (boy, do I have too much time on my hands...)?
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Comments
Blackrose on December 29, 2017:
chimney doesn't rhyme with anything?! What about Sydney, kidney, Whitney and all that other stuff?
Chimbombo on October 13, 2017:
Don't love and dove rhyme with of? And you forgot wasp
hallo on April 04, 2016:
you forgot Afro
L on May 06, 2015:
Any word can be rhymed if you slant rhyme.
Purple rhymes with Hurtful, Verbal, and Urkel
Travis White on April 17, 2015:
Wolf rhymes with gulf. Think about the word gulf like the Gulf of Mexico and wolf in the silver wolf.
idk on February 08, 2015:
Nothing rhymes with purple
None of you can rhyme
Kendrick Williams on August 11, 2014:
It's a long list of comments, so I didn't read all of them but, Purple rhymes with Gerbil.
tino turunen on June 10, 2014:
Word Iron for example. You Can make that rhyme if You take it Like . hockey stick made from (Iron) when my jacket is (tight on) just get new car jump (Straight on)
Will Collins on April 28, 2014:
Cockatiel has no rhymes.
Posting 6 Years After on April 26, 2014:
^unless you pronounce lion, orion, etc. "ly-ron", ori-ron", no they do not rhyme
although Chiron from Greek mythology rhymes
also doesn't eighth rhyme with faith?
for those of you who don't know, the rule of a rhyme is that it has to rhyme from the last stressed syllable onwards.
reptile doesn't work with file because "rep" is the stressed syllable in the word reptile. you would need a word like SEPtile or KEPtile or preLEPtile
PostGhost on March 11, 2014:
Iron = Lion, Orion, ion, Cyan, Mayan, Hawaiian, geminian, Uruguayan, scion.
Blank on February 21, 2014:
Chicklet rhymes with chocolate
Jeremy on February 01, 2014:
Orange rhymes with sporange...pizza is an italian word not an english word.
agression on November 03, 2013:
I didn't mean to take all your aspirine. Please forgive me it was an accident!
asdf on July 28, 2013:
Of rhymes with Dove
mohammad on June 19, 2013:
wolf = golf ?
Moobldy Farfendoofen on May 27, 2013:
Hostage rhymes with sausage. You need to double check your list.
hi on May 13, 2013:
chaos- Barbados!!!
GIEL on April 17, 2013:
reptile rhymes with file
yeah on February 03, 2013:
orange----minge
me on January 14, 2013:
A lorof you people are idiots that do not know how to rhyme.
R on November 19, 2012:
HUuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Skyler on November 14, 2012:
Cruton rhymes with netron
sky on October 20, 2012:
eight rhymes with skaight
Ifyoureadthisyou'regay on July 21, 2012:
Orange = Door-hinge
LatestDud (author) from Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) on July 08, 2012:
@YouFail - Pint isn't pronounced the same way as 'mint, lint, tint, dint' etc. It's pronounced 'pie-ent'.
thislistsucks on July 05, 2012:
iron rhymes with lion
YouFail on June 13, 2012:
and mint, and tint, and dint....
YouFail on June 13, 2012:
pint rhymes with hint. you fail. HARD.
gabby182 on June 03, 2012:
a lot of these have rhymes. for example, of and dove. I would suggest revising this.
Lala on May 31, 2012:
Almond= Salmon
Vic on May 28, 2012:
Almond rhyms with salmo
QI Fan on May 23, 2012:
Fans of the program QI will know the following rhymes: Orange - Blorenge and Gorringe
Purple - Hurple and Curple
Dude on May 22, 2012:
testicle?
RepulsiveGecko5 on May 16, 2012:
Reptile rhymes with missile
lewis clark on May 15, 2012:
hahahahahahahaha i found a word that rymes with GOLF..................DOLF...its a name neegro
Ashley on May 12, 2012:
Some of you are real idiots...How the **** can of rhyme with dove you don't say it 'dov' you say it 'duv'.... :@
Lauren on May 10, 2012:
Elbow rings with bow.
poop on May 07, 2012:
lovely?
harry27 on May 01, 2012:
What about courageous
man who finds flaws in everything on April 23, 2012:
what about panther?
Bastinki on April 21, 2012:
I eat ALMONDS wearing nothing but DIAMONDS, I'm ANGRY hungry, and GANGLY.
My first reaction's usually ANGST, so THANKS for making me ANXIOUS, no, actually, I think I'll keep it THANKLESS, and instead just take an ASPIRIN to control these levels of GASTRIN, cos pain relief and a good night's sleep in my bed is all I'm ASKING.
So what if I'm a BACHELOR it's not because my arms and legs and fingers are TENTACULAR,
I could go on here, - but won't. :)
Breadth - Hairbreadth
Bulb - Gulp, Bulk, Pulp
Bulbous - Sulcus, Schoolbus?
Cannabis - dramatist, philanthropist
Engine - Avenging, whinging?
Iron - Mayan
Vacuum - Backroom (as with hairsbredth, this is usually written as one word maybe?)
Penguin - Pending, sanguin, bending
Transfer - Transverse
Promise - Honest
Obvious - Orphheus (poet)
Bastinki on April 21, 2012:
Okay here we go, a rhyme based on the words you offer.
J on April 21, 2012:
Most of these words are truly not rhymable in contemporary
English. However, using the unabridged Oxford Enlish Dictionary, orange, silver, and purple are the only words without perfect rhymes.
Grambo on April 10, 2012:
unless somebody else said it.. I don't think "naked" has a rhyme ?
jeremyb on April 09, 2012:
"Of" is wrong. It rhymes with dove and love and glove.
Meow on April 01, 2012:
Gulf rhymes with engulf
What about rhythm?
iHoRiZoNi on March 17, 2012:
Purple ; Hurdle?
emillie fleming in yo face on March 06, 2012:
ornage rhymes with
challenge
expunge
lozenge
lunge
orange
plunge
scavenge
sponge
Hey on March 03, 2012:
DESK, PIZZA
not important on March 01, 2012:
orange rhymes with challenge
XxM0nk3yk1llz0n3xX on February 09, 2012:
Lol, your two year old works with bitichin'?
Kitchen bitchin on February 03, 2012:
You lot need to get a life my two year old does this shit
craig on February 03, 2012:
Tell you what you lot must be on drugs cus that's how I ended up on this page lol, n kitchin rymes with itchen,bitchin,twitchin,stichin, if you take away the g lmao
X on January 20, 2012:
Ninja rhymes with ginger angel rhymes with hell
Jelly_Belly on January 16, 2012:
Merriam-Webster says that nothing rhymes with "angel".
Umm on January 14, 2012:
Silver , Bewilder
junaid on January 13, 2012:
i swear iron rhymes with lion...
Jsfgyfghugv on January 03, 2012:
Of rhymes with dove
ahseeb on December 25, 2011:
purple-turtle !
daffy poon on December 19, 2011:
what is yeek idiot
juckue on December 19, 2011:
yeek
Missael on December 17, 2011:
vacuum=womb
Missael on December 17, 2011:
wolf=gulf
Delaney on December 16, 2011:
Difficult. I can't think of a rhyme for difficult. Tricky.
yo on November 30, 2011:
dilver rhymews with silver dilvers eat there own feces its true google it
kamuimaru on November 27, 2011:
Purple rhymes with nurple. Purple nurple
Liam on November 22, 2011:
Fift= gift. lift. to name a few
Mickey on November 16, 2011:
What about wonderful?
Henry on November 06, 2011:
Doesn't Wolf rhyme with gulf?
jam on October 31, 2011:
purple rhymes with curple (the hindquarters of a horse and hirple (to walk with a limp)
More words that Don't rhyme on October 29, 2011:
Asparagus and celery
gig on October 24, 2011:
CMON! SANDWICH RHYMES WITH WITCH!
Intruder on October 10, 2011:
This entire thread is overly US-centric. The US "CNN accent" is not the only way people on this planet speak. Why is the definition of 'rhyme' always limited to the accent only half of Americans and no Europeans have?
A way you can demonstrate the rhyming problem is by comparing language dictionaries from the US with their UK counterparts. For example, the o in the swedish drink Glögg is said to be like the 'oo' in the US 'look', and the 'er' in the UK 'berg' Nobody in the US would think the vowel sounds in 'look' and 'berg' are anything alike. In England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa they sound remarkably similar.
So in this sense, 'bachelor' and 'spatula' can rhyme... ask a cockney!
Everyday im shufflin on October 08, 2011:
Orange purple and silver DON'T rhyme with anything urple isn't a freakin word u idiots and stop makin up words that arent real in english oh and can i give all of u gift in german haha
Everyday im shufflin on October 08, 2011:
Orange purple and silver DON'T rhyme with anything urple isn't a freakin word u idiots and stop makin up words that arent real in english
Big daddy on October 06, 2011:
"GULF" and "WOLF" rhyme just like OF, ABOVE, LOVE, DOVE, GLOVE and probably many more!
Cory on September 26, 2011:
Wilderness does not have a rhyme. Lame.
Literacy101 on September 26, 2011:
You guys are idiots those words are up there because they don't rhyme . Your examples are wrong if you actually pronounce them properly. I did enjoy the list helped with a poety english report.
Pint? on September 25, 2011:
Pint = Tint
Mr. Oinkmonkey on September 24, 2011:
'Orange' rhymes with 'sporange', which is a sac where spores are made.
'Silver rhymes with 'chilver', which is a female lamb.
something on September 17, 2011:
actully if u do think bout it pedent and decendent rymes so ther you go haha !!!!!!
Andrew on September 12, 2011:
Haha this is fun readingthis
Tam on September 11, 2011:
idiot rhymes with bigot doesn't it?
Rae on August 01, 2011:
Idiot doesn't rhyme with others, that I've found.
t on July 26, 2011:
angel
angry
chimney
sanction
vacuum
problem
neutron
dangerous
obvious
loathetian
animal
citizen
zigzag
necessery
Mr. Know it all... on July 26, 2011:
Heard this in another thread
Golf - Disolve? probs not
Pint - Skint yes
Cslet on July 26, 2011:
Fledglings
Portfolio
Moneyback
Exclusively
Korimono (so sorry)
someone rhyme the ones i said before
Dan on July 13, 2011:
Orange rhymes with lozenge.
Also kitchen rhymes with friction and description.
R on June 25, 2011:
examples - revamples ha
Your name on April 26, 2011:
Purple circle?
Tori on April 22, 2011:
EIGHTH rhythms with FAITH!
Storm the Lucario on April 13, 2011:
What rhymes with "examples"?
Let's see if someone can rhyme that.
Blah blah blah on April 12, 2011:
Whaddya mean, of and poo?!
Storm the Lucario on April 12, 2011:
Oi, Jonathan: "Ninja" rhymes with "singed ya"
...kind of
:p
Muppet POS on April 11, 2011:
Of and poo
Cslet on April 10, 2011:
What about disruptive, quantity and permeable
anon on March 26, 2011:
reptile rhymes with erectile failure!
sanelacar on March 01, 2011:
Noticed "laundry" listed. What about "quandry"? I think this rhymes...
Found this site looking for words that rhyme with kitchen, and almost non-existent. Most listings were actually last names. I like bitch'en, but might not be appropriate for a poem I want to submit. Anything else you all can think of that rhymes with kitchen?
Krede on February 17, 2011:
Month rhymes whit hunt?
