Monosyllabic words I can't find rhymes for

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Thanks, mollusque & yarb! You make Wordie the finest kind of edutainment. :-)

Alp is not just a proper noun - it can mean "any high, esp. snowcapped, mountain(s)" or "a bullfinch" (SOED5).

Halp! The lowly salp has extended a palp to scalp an alp.

It does indeed, Asativum. However, one of the unwritten rules of this list is "proper nouns don't count".

Doesn't Alp rhyme with scalp?

Good catch, mollusque -- thank you! Not only have you helped my list, you've taught me the word zarf, an excellent word if I ever saw one.

I've harf a mind to tell you that barf rhymes with scarf and zarf.

Thanks to juliah and Papageno for their lists of rhymeless words, from which I shall respectfully pilfer in order to expand this list.

'Of all our many English rhymes,
There's none, they say, for month;
I've tried and failed a hundred times,
Then made it the hundred and oneth.'

...Which 'should' of course be 'hundred and first', so the challenge is still open. I don't know who wrote the verse, unfortunately.

Edit: oh, and cairn also rhymes with Nairn.

Tilth.
Pulp.

Bairn rhymes with cairn. How about filth or gulp?

There are loads and loads of polysyllabic words with no rhymes. The real challenge is finding monosyllabic words with no rhymes.

Hence the list.