There are 20 English words without perfect rhymes, including angst, bulb, and orange. Purple and silver have obscure rhymes, while imperfect rhymes for orange include melange and strange. Perfect rhymes must have the same syllabic stress pattern.
There are about 20 words in the English language that don’t rhyme perfectly, including these words: angst, bulb, cusp, film, gulf, oven, month, glimpse, oblige, opus, orange, pint, plankton, rhythm, depth, wide and width.
More rhyming facts:
There are actually obscure rhymes for the traditional non-rhyming words “purple” and “silver.” “Purple” actually has two rhymes: “curple,” which is the hindquarters of a horse or donkey; as well as “hirple”, which means walking with a limp. “Silver” rhymes with “chilver,” a term for a female lamb.
While “orange” is a common example of a word without a perfect rhyme, it has several imperfect rhymes, including “melange,” “strange,” and “blancmange.”
For a word to be considered a perfect rhyme, it must have the same syllabic stress pattern as the original word.
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