A list of 34 words by pterodactyl.
- gorpwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 19 lists
- warmthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 32 lists
- scarcewas added by pterodactyl and appears on 25 lists
- filmedwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 5 lists
- whilstwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 52 lists
- cormwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 20 lists
- yeahwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 34 lists
- albwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 36 lists
- cuspwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 71 lists
- breadthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 49 lists
- depthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 51 lists
- filmwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 49 lists
- fuguewas added by pterodactyl and appears on 90 lists
- glimpsedwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 5 lists
- golfwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 35 lists
- pintwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 22 lists
- twelfthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 28 lists
- wolfwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 78 lists
- widthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 12 lists
- bulbwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 33 lists
- angstwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 119 lists
- karstwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 32 lists
- elsewas added by pterodactyl and appears on 26 lists
- flangewas added by pterodactyl and appears on 51 lists
- plinthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 139 lists
- monthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 27 lists
- tenthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 12 lists
- ninthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 11 lists
- eighthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 17 lists
- sixthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 16 lists
- fifthwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 13 lists
- orangewas added by pterodactyl and appears on 132 lists
- waspwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 43 lists
- kilnwas added by pterodactyl and appears on 37 lists
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
There are loads and loads of polysyllabic words with no rhymes. The real challenge is finding monosyllabic words with no rhymes.
Hence the list.
March 13, 2008
yarb commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Bairn rhymes with cairn. How about filth or gulp?
March 13, 2008
gangerh commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Tilth.
Pulp.
March 13, 2008
vanishedone commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
'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.
March 13, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Thanks to juliah and Papageno for their lists of rhymeless words, from which I shall respectfully pilfer in order to expand this list.
March 14, 2008
mollusque commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
I've harf a mind to tell you that barf rhymes with scarf and zarf.
May 11, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
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.
May 11, 2008
asativum commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Doesn't Alp rhyme with scalp?
May 12, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
It does indeed, Asativum. However, one of the unwritten rules of this list is "proper nouns don't count".
May 12, 2008
mollusque commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Halp! The lowly salp has extended a palp to scalp an alp.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Alp is not just a proper noun - it can mean "any high, esp. snowcapped, mountain(s)" or "a bullfinch" (SOED5).
May 12, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Thanks, mollusque & yarb! You make Wordie the finest kind of edutainment. :-)
May 12, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Oh fond memories... this was one of the first lists I ever created. I remember well the friendly welcome that the Wordies gave me. :-)
I revisit the list now on the happy occasion of having noticed that the word "whelk" is rhymeless. Yes! Another word for the list!
Any more contributions?
September 1, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
It's lovely, pterodactyl!
*favorited*
September 1, 2010
yarb commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
elk.
sorry!
September 1, 2010
mollusque commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Also belk, spelk and yelk.
September 1, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
alb?
September 1, 2010
bilby commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
...with a rebel yelk
we cried mork
mork
mork
mork mork mork...
September 1, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Elk... oh yeah.
Oh well.
September 1, 2010
hernesheir commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
I grew up saying "melk" for "milk". A perfect rhyme for elk, then.
September 1, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Oh man, I still say "melk" for "milk". Perhaps it's a Midwestern thing -- I spent many of my formative years in Illinois.
September 2, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
"Elk milk", for example, is a rhyming phrase for me. (So is "whelk milk", but that's kind of gross.)
September 2, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Oh dear--I hadn't realized there was any other way to say melk.
September 2, 2010
dontcry commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
*says melk too*
September 2, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Oh, that reminds me of a joke!
Ruzuzu: "Say silk three times."
Good sport: "Silk... silk... silk...."
Ruzuzu: "Now, what do cows drink?"
Good sport: "Mil... No! Water!"
September 2, 2010
fbharjo commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
How about Gala gala galactic(a).
September 2, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Found another one today: hearth!
August 15, 2014
alexz commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
does dearth rhyme with hearth?
(I never use these words)
August 15, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
In my dialect, "dearth" does not rhyme with "hearth". "Dearth" rhymes with "earth", but "hearth" is like "heart" with a TH on the end.
August 15, 2014
alexz commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
How about Garth and Darth?
August 16, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
"Garth" and "Darth" definitely do rhyme with "hearth", but they're both proper nouns, so I feel like they don't count. It's like how "orange" is still a rhymeless word even if I name my daughter "Zorange".
August 16, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
(Note that I am not advocating that anyone name their daughter "Zorange"!)
August 16, 2014
qms commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
The rhyming of “hearts” and “ersatz” works for me and I think “hearth” could make three. In my native dialect (Eastern Massachusetts) the letter “R” following a vowel doesn’t really count and we use the “A” that is sounded in “dark” in places where other Americans would not. Thus “heart,” “path,” “bath” and “hearth” all rhyme. For that matter “car key” and “khaki” are homophones.
August 16, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
qms, are "heart" and "hat" homophones in your native dialect?
August 16, 2014
qms commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
No. “Hat” has the “A” of /æ/, to rhyme with “cat,” “pat,” etc. “Path” and “bath” have the “A” of /ɑ/. as in “father.” I can’t think of any dialect where “hat” would take that second “A.”
August 16, 2014
alexz commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
I feel like a blind person listening to people talk about different shades of a colour.
August 16, 2014
rolig commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
limp'st (what thou dost when thou hast twisted thy ankle) rhymeth with glimpsed, methinks.
August 16, 2014
rolig commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Have you ever played a fugue on a Moog?
August 16, 2014
rolig commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
A man kin git a mahty tharst in the Karst.
August 16, 2014
rolig commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
(Sorry about that last one.)
August 16, 2014
alexz commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Put the hearth in a zarf?
August 17, 2014
bilby commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
path - hearth, no worries mate!
August 18, 2014
bilby commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
There's an auto parts distributor near me called Martin Gorringe. I'm sure he'd be interested in marrying your daughter Zorange.
August 18, 2014
qms commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
That man of parts, Martin Gorringe,
Will wed the lovely young Zorange.
Their fire was lit quick
At a viewing of "Picnic."
They fell for each other and for Inge.
August 18, 2014
qms commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Would it be spoiling the fun to point out that "orange" is a two-syllable word?
August 18, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
qms, I think you've found another dialectical difference. "Orange" is only one syllable in my dialect.
Also, your limerick made me grin from ear to ear. :-)
August 18, 2014
qms commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
"Orange" as a one-syllable word! That never occured to me. I guess it would be sounded like "ornge." Unfortunately the rhyming possibilities are not much improved with that pronunciation.
August 18, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
I was sorely tempted to start in on the knock-knock-who's-there-banana-banana-who joke. Orange you glad I resisted?
August 18, 2014
bilby commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Can we pass the hat around and buy ptero another syllable? Here's my two cents.
August 19, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
So, it's two syllables you want, bilby? Then it's two syllables you'll get!
August 19, 2014
pterodactyl commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
It's amazing -- I created this list more than ten years ago, and I'm still finding new words for it.
October 30, 2018
bilby commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Hi ptero, it's going well.
October 30, 2018