| Word |
Rhyme |
Notes |
Why not a rhyme |
| against |
dispensed, incensed |
Removed fenced and sensed from this table |
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| aggry |
braggry |
|
this is 'braggery' |
| alterity |
parity dexterity, posterity, etc. |
rhyme per OED (vowel of parity was wrong) 'parity' does rhyme in accents with the marry-merry-Mary merger |
|
| angry |
hangry (neologism), nangry |
|
these both contain 'angry': a blend and a misparsing |
| animal |
disanimal, dismal |
|
this is the same word |
| babe |
wabe, outgrabe, scrabe, suabe, nabe (slang) |
does not rhyme with astrolabe |
|
| beards (pl) |
Weirds (Fates) |
rhyme per OED |
|
| beige |
grège |
rhyme per OED: "Vera Dexter designed this sports dress of Belding's Crêpe in grège and beige." |
| blacksmith |
jacksmith |
rhymes per OED (also, we're not compiling compound words, which would number in the thousands) |
|
| breathed (participle /brɛθt/: well-breathed, long-breathed, etc. |
methed (high on methamphetamines) |
(too recent for the old OED) |
|
| bulb |
culb, culbe |
presumed rhyme, added to 'obscure' |
|
bulbous |
? culbous (non-OED) |
|
no evidence that this is a word |
| canine |
ranine |
rhyme per OED |
|
| celebrity |
tenebrity |
rhyme per OED |
|
| chaos |
naos |
rhymes per OED |
|
| chocolate |
2-syll. rocklet, 3-syll bockelet |
rhyme per M-W11 |
OED only has bockerel and bockeret (M & F) for the latter. |
| circle |
hurkle, opercle |
rhyme per OED |
|
| clothes |
oaths /ˈoʊðz/ |
rhyme per OED |
|
| condom |
quondam |
modern pronunciation is a rhyme |
OED pronunciation was still /ˈkɒndɒm/ |
| crayon |
rayon |
rhymes per OED, though both have alt. pronunciations |
|
| denizen |
venison |
rhymes per OED |
does not rhyme in GA |
| different |
odoriferent, proliferent, vociferent |
rhyme per OED |
|
| eighth |
weighth |
|
likely /eitθ/ vs. /eiθ/ |
| elbow |
beelbow |
|
this is the same word |
| experiment |
merriment |
rhyme per OED |
|
| flange |
gange (protect fishhook w a wire) |
rhymes per OED |
|
| film |
pilm |
"pilm" is an old British word for dust. |
Rhymed with the online Unabridged Merriam-Webster's Dictionary |
| galaxy |
agalaxy |
|
no, stress is wrong |
| gulf |
begulf, bloodulf, disgulf, engulf, ingulf |
|
these are the same word, except for bloodulf, which per Webster's 1913 has the wrong stress (Blood"ulf /ˈblʊdəlf/) |
| golf |
rolf |
rhymes per OED |
|
| heighth |
dryth (drought), myth (old pronunciation), rithe (a brooklet), etc. |
rhyme in RP (/-aiθ/) per OED |
None of these rhyme in GA, where heighth is /haitθ/ |
| homograph |
nomograph |
rhyme per OED |
|
| hostage (short o) |
costage |
presumed pronunciation only |
? |
| hyphenate |
asiphonate |
per OED (presumably also siphonate) |
|
| jejune |
moon etc etc etc. |
per OED |
|
| karsts |
fasts |
rhymes in RP, though there is no rhyme in GA |
|
| lairds (pl) |
cairds (tinkers), brairds (first shoots of grass) |
rhyme per OED |
|
| Lisbon |
Brisbane |
per OED & Wiki pronunciation |
|
| matrix |
administratrix etc. |
dozens per OED |
|
| month |
? hunth (abbrev. for 100 thousandth) |
no evidence this is a word, but there is (n + 1)th. (holimonth, twelvemonth, & mid-month, besides containing the word, have the wrong stress pattern) |
|
| mouth (verb), mouths (noun) |
south (verb) (-/auθ/ or -/auð/) |
the verb mouth & the plural noun are hard to rhyme, but covered by the 2ary pron. of the verb south per dict.com |
|
| music |
anchusic |
(obscure) rhymes per OED |
|
| (un)necessary |
sedentary |
The vowel sounds match perfectly, at least with the American pronunciation |
| of |
sov, Sov, rav |
rhyme per OED (& sovs, ravs rhyme) |
|
| orange |
borange |
already have some words, but this supposed Aussie slang is not confirmed. one alleged use = the brown-orange skin color white people get from using too much fake-tan lotion. as a possible blend with orange, it wouldn't count anyway. |
|
| pedant |
quadrupedant |
obscure (means 'horse' etc.) |
wrong stress, in addition to otherwise having identical syllables |
| pint |
rynt, rhint, bint(?), behint (Robert Burns: The Cooper O' Cuddy) |
rynt = rhint; not 'bint'; behint not RP |
|
| pizza |
Tietze |
as in Tietze's syndrome. Rhymes per OED. |
|
| plankton |
Yankton |
(the Yankton nation, town). rhymes per dictionary.com |
|
| poet |
introït (antiphon in Mass) |
w/ diaeresis, rhymes per OED. also numerous phrases: know it, show it, etc. |
|
| poem |
proem |
and for many people probably phloem |
|
| pork |
Bork, cork, dork, fork, stork, York |
I don't have access to the OED but surely one of these is a rhyme. |
No, none of them are. They're all /ɔːk/ rather than /ɔək/ (or in GA, /ɔːrk/ rather than /oʊrk/, if anyone in GA maintains that distinction) |
| porringer |
oranger |
rare; usually "orangest" but "more orange" ("more orange than the orangest orange") |
? |
| postage |
hostage (long o) |
presumed pronunciation only |
? |
| promise |
Comice, phlomis |
as in Comice pear. both rhyme per OED |
|
| reptile |
septile |
rhymes per OED |
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| rhythm |
algorithm, logarithm |
|
no, stress is wrong |
| sculpt |
gulped |
also 'pulped' in OED |
|
| shadow |
laddo |
(as in "lad") rhymes per OED. also, for some, dorado (a fish) |
| sowths, -ed a tune, souths, -ed (verb) /auθs, auθt/ |
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sowth and south are identical rhymes, and so count as unrhymed. bad-mouthed etc. have the wrong stress. Scouth and routh do not seem to have plural forms. Plural of drouth (= drought) possible but unattested. |
| spatula |
Terebratula (brachiopod) |
rhymes per OED |
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| tenth |
nth |
pronounced "enth", clearly attestible |
|
| tufts (pl) |
yufts (pl) |
tuft rhymes w yuft, a kind of Russian leather, per OED; attested in pl. |
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| valve |
salve |
rhymes per OED |
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| wasp |
knosp (knob ornament) |
rhymes per OED |
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| widow |
kiddo |
|
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| width |
sidth |
rhymes per OED (obscure) |
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| window |
Indo, pindo (palm) |
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| zonary |
donary, nonary, stonery |
rhyme per OED |
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