Some words form semi-rhymes with orange (use the second half of the word), including coupling, cowerAnd impact. However, sporethe plant structure that produces spores, is a present-day word that forms an almost perfect rhyme with orange.
Orange Are you glad we don’t rhyme ‘banana’?
from orange famous for having no rhyme. The rhyme sound of a word is determined by its sound from the vowel in the last stressed syllable to the end of the word. Orange can be pronounced as a two-syllable word (\AR-inj\ or \OR-inj\) or as a dialect syllable (\ARNJ\ or \ORNJ\). Therefore, as a two-syllable word with stress on the penultimate syllable, it needs at least one two-syllable word to rhyme with. And, really, there’s an obscure rhyme with orange that your elementary school teachers and parents didn’t tell you (because they most likely, like many others, were unaware of its existence). We’ll get to that in a few words about another way to rhyme with orange.
Types of rhymes
Linguists consider words with similar endings to form a special type of rhyme. So, orange can be rhymed, imperfectly, with single-syllable words ending in \j\, as in coupling And cowerand with two-syllable words that end in that sound, such as impact, challengeAnd lozenges. The result of combining such words with orange called half rhymesometimes also called near rhyme, italic rhymeor oblique rhyme. In a syllable, words correspond only to their final consonant and not to the preceding vowel. Although they don’t refer to this literary device by name, both rapper Eminem and billionaire Elon Musk have provided an example of it in defiance of the idea that no word rhymes with the word. orange.
EMINEM: Yes. It is just in its pronunciation. Like, people say the word orange doesn’t rhyme with anything… I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange.
ANDERSON COOPER: What does orange rhyme? I’m trying to think but I can’t think of anything.
EMINEM: If you take it—if you’re taking the word at face value and you just say orange, nothing rhymes with it exactly. If you pronounce it and make it sound like more than one syllable—
ANDERSON COOPER: Mm-Hm.
EMINEM: —Orange, you could say, I put my orange 4-inch door hinges in storage and eat porridge with George. – CBS News, October 7, 2010
door hinge
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 9, 2019
Of course, the two-word term door hinge does not form a real rhyme with orangebut its half can be used to make a half rhyme with the name of the citrus fruit.
A word that actually rhymes with orange
spore (\SPOR-anj\) is the name of the structure in which the spores are produced, and this technique word is closest to forming a perfect rhyme with orange. We think you can forgive your teachers and parents for not telling you about it. And, honestly, its botanical quality renders it useless as a word that rhymes with orange in the realm of poetry (but it will be a great trump card in your rhyming game).
So rhymes, if you tend to end a line of compound sentences with orange, there are options. Multiple words can be formed to make a half rhyme, or always have spore. Although you may find it easier to meditate on half-rhymes than ending a line with spore.
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