This list includes rhymes of words that have been listed as rhymeless.
Masculine rhymes •
airt (rhymes with the Scots pronunciations of various other words, e.g. "pairt", a Scots variant of "part", and "smairt", a Scots variant of "smart") •
aitch rhymes with dialectal
nache (the bony point on the rump of an ox or cow),
Rach, a
hypocoristic for the name Rachel, one pronunciation of obsolete
rache (a streak down a horse's face), and the surname of
Anne Heche. •
angst rhymes with
manxed and
wangst, self-indulgent self-pity (a portmanteau of
wank and
angst);
phalanxed is not a perfect rhyme because the stress is on the wrong syllable. The alternative American pronunciation has no rhymes. •
beige rhymes with
greige, a colour between grey and beige (though etymologically unrelated to them). •
blitzed rhymes with
spritzed, from
spritz, to squirt with water or mist,
schizzed as in
schizzed out, and one pronunciation of "midst". •
boing, -s rhymes with
doing (etymology 2), the sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object, and
toing/
toings, the sound of a metallic vibration. •
bombed rhymes with
glommed, American slang for 'attached'. •
borscht, borshcht rhymes with dialectical
warshed (washed)) •
cairn rhymes with
bairn, a Northern English and Scottish word meaning child; and
Nairn, a town and formal
royal burgh in Scotland. •
cleansed rhymes with
lensed, "provided with a lens or lenses". •
coif rhymes with
boyf, slang for "boyfriend". •
culm rhymes with
stulm, another word for an
adit. •
cusp rhymes with
Dual-specificity phosphatase|, an
acronym for "dual-specificity phosphatase enzyme". •
doth rhymes with
Cuth, a
hypocoristic for the name Cuthbert, as in "Cuth's Day" at
St. Cuthbert's Society. •
dreamt rhymes with
verklemmt, too overcome with emotion to speak. (Furthermore, if the rime is pronounced as , it rhymes with
exempt, tempt, etc.) •
else rhymes with
wels, the fish
Silurus glanis; and
Chels, a
hypocoristic for the name Chelsea. •
eth rhymes with Castilian Spanish
merced, 'gift', which is occasionally used in English. •
fiends rhymes with
teinds, Scottish word for the portion of an estate assessed for the stipend of the clergy, and archaic Scottish
piends. •
film, -s rhymes with
pilm, Scottish word for dust. The plural
films rhymes with
Wilms, a German surname and
a kidney tumor •
flange rhymes with
Ange, a
hypocoristic for the name Angela; and one pronunciation of
ganj, short for
ganja. •
fourths rhymes with ''North's'', belonging to someone named North (such as
Oliver North or
Kanye West and
Kim Kardashian's daughter North West). •
fugue, -s rhymes with
jougs, which is rarely found in the singular; one pronunciation of
Moog, the synthesizer brand name; Droog, the sister catalogue to
Delia*s for boys;
zhoug, a green
Yemeni sauce;
doogh, a savory Persian
yogurt drink;
cheug, a slang term for a person who has an outdated idea of what is trendy;
the boog, short for the
boogaloo movement; and
Zoog Disney. The plural rhymes with the name of
Zoogz Rift. •
grilse rhymes with
fils (etymology 2), a hundredth or thousandth of the monetary units of many Arab countries. •
gulf, -s rhymes with
SULF1| (pl.
Sulfs), any of a number of sulfate-regulating enzymes. •
kiln, -s, if pronounced , rhymes with the surname
Milne. The plural rhymes with ''Milne's
, belonging to someone with the surname Milne''. •
loge rhymes with the English pronunciation of
Limoges, a city in France, and a kind of porcelain. It also rhymes with a common pronunciation of
doge, especially when referring to
the Internet meme. •
midst rhymes with
didst, the archaic second-person singular for did (used with
thou). The alternate pronunciation This also appears in fractions and so takes the plural, as in
twenty thirty-oneths. •
oblige rhymes with
Nige, a
hypocoristic for the name Nigel. •
oink, -s rhymes with
yoink/
yoinks, a colloquial interjection expressing the stealing or sudden acquisition of something;
boink/
boinks, a slang word meaning "to have sex with"; and
Spoink, a Pokémon species introduced in Generation III. •
pint rhymes with
rynt, a word milkmaids use to get a cow to move. •
plagued rhymes with
vagued, meaning "wandered/roamed" or "became vague/acted vaguely". •
plinth rhymes with
synth, colloquial for
synthesizer. •
quaich rhymes with
scraich/scraigh, Scots for "to screech", and one pronunciation of
abeigh, a rare Scottish word meaning "cautiously aloof". •
rouged rhymes with
luged, having ridden on a luge. •
sylph rhymes with
MILF/milf, vulgar slang; and
Wilf, a hypocorism for the name Wilfred. •
thesp rhymes with
hesp, a measure of two hanks of linen thread in
Scotland; and
Cresp, a French surname. •
torsk rhymes with
Norsk, a
rural locality in Russia •
tufts rhymes with
scufts, the third-person singular form of the dialectal verb
scuft. •
waltzed rhymes with
schmaltzed, as in "schmaltzed up" (see
schmaltz). •
wasp rhymes with
knosp, "an ornament in the form of a bud or knob". •
wharves rhymes with
dwarves, the variant of
dwarfs usually used in
fantasy of the
Tolkienian model. It also rhymes with
corves, the plural of corf, a type of basket. •
whorl (when not pronounced to rhyme with
curl or
floral) rhymes with
schorl, a variety of tourmaline. •
width rhymes with obsolete
sidth, meaning length. •
yoicks rhymes with
oiks, the plural of
oik, a slang term for a boorish member of the lower class in the U.K. and Ireland. It also forms an identity rhyme with
joiks.
Feminine rhymes •
angsty rhymes with
planxty, an Irish or Welsh melody for the harp. •
arugula rhymes with
Bugula, a genus of bryozoan, in American English. •
chaos rhymes with
naos, the inner chamber of a temple. •
chimney rhymes with
Jimny, a model of car from Japanese automaker
Suzuki. •
chocolate rhymes with
auklet, any of the smaller species of
auks, in General American, in which the vowel in the accented syllable is pronounced /ɑ/ in both words. •
circle rhymes with
hurkle, to pull in all one's limbs;
novercal, like a stepmother;
squircle, a geometric shape resembling a square with rounded edges (e.g.,
Lamé's special quartic);
opercle, an
opercular bone; and the surnames of
Angela Merkel (as pronounced in English),
Studs Terkel, and
Steve Urkel. •
circus rhymes with
murcous, having cut off one's thumb; and
Quercus, a genus of oak. •
diamond rhymes with
hymened, having a
hymen of a specified description, as in the word
tough-hymened. •
elbow rhymes with the surname of
Vivian Selbo. •
music rhymes with
anchusic, as in
anchusic acid;
dysgeusic, having a disorder that causes alterations in one's sense of taste;
ageusic, lacking a sense of taste; and
sheltopusik, a lizard of Europe and Central Asia. •
neutron , in American English, rhymes with
Lutron, an electronics company based in
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. •
ninja, -s rhymes with
Rohingya, a minority group in
Myanmar, and
Shinja, a Christian who practices martial arts (in rhotic accents such as General American; in non-rhotic accents such as RP, these words also rhyme with
ginger, injure, etc.). •
opus (with a short
O), , rhymes with
Hoppus, a method of measuring timber and surname of
Mark Hoppus, lead singer of
Blink-182; and, in American English, one pronunciation of
tapas, Mexican finger food. •
orange , rhymes with "door hinge" in certain accents;
Blorenge, a hill in Wales; and "
blorange", slang for a hair color between blond and orange.
Webster's Third gives two pronunciations for
sporange, one of which rhymes. However, one is a spelling pronunciation based on
orange, and the
OED only has the non-rhyming pronunciation, with the stress on the
ange : . The American pronunciation of
orange with one syllable has no rhyme, even in non-rhotic accents. •
plankton rhymes with
Yankton, a member of a western branch of the
Dakota people and
several American place names named after the people. •
poem , in American English, rhymes with the Hebrew names
Noam,
Jeroboam and
Rehoboam; ''
no'm'', a dialectal contraction for "no, ma'am"; or with
phloem (/ˈfləʊ.əm/)
(pronunciations vary). •
poet rhymes with
coit, to have sex. •
purple rhymes with
curple, the hindquarters of a horse or donkey,
hirple, to walk with a limp,
nurple, the act of roughly twisting a nipple (slang). •
rhythm rhymes with
Lytham, a seaside town in England; and
smitham, fine malt or ore dust. •
silver rhymes with
chilver, a female lamb. •
siren rhymes with
gyron, a type of triangle in heraldry;
environ, meaning to encircle or surround; the given names
Byron and
Myron; and
apeiron, meaning infinity. •
soldier rhymes with the surnames
Bolger and
Folger •
toilet rhymes with
oillet, an eyelet; and
Coylet, a hamlet in
Argyll and Bute. •
woman rhymes with
toman (some pronunciations), a Persian coin and military division. •
yttrium rhymes with
liberum arbitrium, a legal term. ==See also==