There’s no word in English that rhymes with “orange.” Everyone knows this. But what rhymes with “problem,” “depth,” “wolf,” “elbow,” or “with”?
Petr Kratochvil [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
It turns out that there are many many words in English that fulfil this criterion, unless you cheat by adding a prefix (“in-depth”), using a homophone (“wulf”), or ignoring the fact that we pronounce th two different ways (no, “with” does not rhyme with “myth”).
There are quite a few words that only have a very obscure rhyme (“film” and “pilm”; or “music” and “ageusic”), and others that have only a single rhyme (“dwarfed” and “morphed”; “smooth” and “soothe”). Several words may rhyme depending on your accent or pronunciation, of course, or your tolerance for obscure place names (“Blorenge,” anyone?).
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The Generalist
I live in Auckland, New Zealand, and am curious about most things.
You must have meant that “width” does not rhyme with “myth”, because “with” does.
Haha, I knew that one would get some pushback. “With” only rhymes with “myth” in some accents – UK, Australian, and NZ English all pronounce it with a voiced /th/ sound.