Words With Obscure Perfect Rhymes
This lists includes rhymes of words that have been listed as rhymeless.
- aitch /ˈ-eɪtʃ/, rhymes with dialectal nache (the bony point on the rump of an ox or cow) and one pronunciation of obsolete rache (a streak down a horse's face)
- angst /ˈ-æŋkst/, rhymes with manxed
- arugula /ˈ-uːɡjələ/, rhymes with Bugula, a genus of bryozoan
- chaos /ˈ-eɪ.ɒs/, rhymes with naos, the inner chamber of a temple
- circle /ˈ-ɜrkəl/, rhymes with hurkle, to pull in all one's limbs
- else /ˈ-ɛls/, rhymes with wels, the fish Silurus glanis
- fiends /ˈ-iːndz/ rhymes with teinds, Scottish word for the portion of an estate assessed for the stipend of the clergy, and archaic Scottish piends
- film, -s /ˈ-ɪlm(s)/ rhymes with pilm, Scottish word for dust. The plural films rhymes with Wilms, a kidney tumor.
- fugue, -s /ˈ-juːɡ(z)/, rhymes with jougs, which is rarely found in the singular
- gulf, -s /ˈ-ʌlf(s)/, rhymes with SULF (pl. Sulfs), any of a number of sulfate-regulating enzymes
- kiln /ˈ-ɪln/, rhymes with the surname Milne
- eth /ˈ-ɛð/, rhymes with Castilian Spanish merced 'gift', which is occasionally used in English
- midst /ˈ-ɪdst/, rhymes with didst, archaic for did
- month /ˈ-ʌnθ/, rhymes with en-plus-oneth (n + 1)th, a mathematical term; also hundred-and-oneth (= hundred-and-first). This also appears in fractions, and so takes the plural, as in twenty thirty-oneths. (Does not rhyme in some accents, e.g. parts of Britain, where gun and one do not rhyme.)
- music /ˈ-juːzɨk/, rhymes with anchusic, as in anchusic acid, dysgeusic, having a disorder that causes alterations in one's sense of taste and ageusic, lacking a sense of taste
- opus (with a short 0), /ˈ-ɒpəs/, rhymes with Hoppus, a method of measuring timber
- orange /ˈ-ɒrɨndʒ/, rhymes with Blorenge, a hill in Wales
- pint /ˈ-aɪnt/, rhymes with rynt, a word milkmaids use to get a cow to move
- plankton /ˈ-æŋktən/, rhymes with Yankton (Sioux)
- plinth /ˈ-ɪnθ/, rhymes with synth, colloquial for synthesizer
- purple /ˈ-ɜrpəl/, rhymes with curple (the hindquarters of a horse or donkey) and hirple (to walk with a limp)
- rhythm /ˈ-ɪðəm/, rhymes with smitham, fine malt or ore dust
- silver /ˈ-ɪlvər/, rhymes with chilver, a female lamb
- siren /ˈ-aɪərən/, rhymes with gyron, a type of triangle in heraldry, and a few technical terms
- toilet /ˈ-ɔɪlɨt/, rhymes with oillet, an eyelet
- width /ˈ-ɪdθ/, rhymes with obsolete sidth, meaning length
- woman /ˈ-ʊmən/, rhymes with toman, a Persian coin and military division
- yttrium /ˈ-ɪtriəm/, rhymes with liberum arbitrium, a legal term
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