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Please make sure you understand what a perfect rhyme is, and that you are counting from the last stressed syllable. For example, "month" does not rhyme with "millionth": The rhyme of "month" is /ʌnθ/ -unth, and the rhyme of "millionth" is /ɪljənθ/ -ilyənth.
If you remove a word from the article, please add it to the alphabetized table below with your evidence (the word you believe it rhymes with) so that we can verify and do not mistakenly add it back in.
If you restore a word on this list to the article, unless it is completely obvious please ~~strike it out~~ and explain why it is not a rhyme.
Most of the refractory rhymes in the article can be said to have a rhyme if you allow them to rhyme with derivatives of themselves, such as elbow and be-elbow, angst and anti-angst, or angry-shmangry. However, these would not be considered rhymes in poetry.
There are thousands of two-syllable words without rhymes, so they aren't particularly interesting. One-syllable words without rhymes, however (or words which are stressed on their final syllable), are much much less common, and so any you find will be useful additions to the article.

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Pork old IPA pronunciation - confused[edit]

The article in its current form states:

"The OED no longer lists "/pɔək/" as an alternative pronunciation in its third edition."

However there is no IPA guide to what that /pɔək/ should actually sound like. I tried looking it up, but the backwards-c symbol (ɔ) only appears together with a colon (ɔː) and not by itself.

There is no citation to this statement. Can someone please advise exactly how the "alternative", allegedly non-rhyming pronunciation of "pork" sounds? Thanks. EuroSong ^talk 17:51, 18 August 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was uncited anyway so I've chopped that bit out. --Hillbillyholiday ^talk 08:02, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The quoted reference for "pork" having no rhyme is from 1920. Anyone born after that time is "younger". OED has not listed that alternative pronounciaton for 30 years now. That's why few people have heard of it.

2001:8003:4278:9E01:74C3:2AD8:99F4:C5CF (talk) 10:58, 27 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Can't think of a rhyme for the UK pronounciation of pair-ənt (IPA: pɛəɹənt). --Hillbillyholiday ^talk 07:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

/ɔɪks/ and gulf-wolf[edit]

The words 'yoicks' and 'joiks' rhyme with 'oiks' and 'hoiks'. Should that be moved to the first section? Also, for speakers of some dialects (including my own), there is no distinction between /ʌl/, /ʊl/, and /oʊl/, so the words mentioned as having no rhymes, 'wolf' and 'gulf' actually rhyme, should this be mentioned? Thanks 2WR1 (talk) 18:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, see Wiktionary:Rhymes:English/ɔɪk. In my native dialect, gulf is pronounced /gʊlf/ to rhyme with wolf, and, in other dialects, I've sometimes heard wolf pronounced /wʌlf/, but the article specifies RP where these words are pronounced differently, so don't rhyme. Dbfirs 21:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

obscure[edit]

If one is going to have a section of words that have obscure rhymes, then one needs to define obscure. It's likely to include an arbitrary component, e.g. something like "only 'x' number of mentions in 'y' amount of time (or 'z' number of internet mentions)." That would seem fine to me -- even if adjusted over time, as we should anticipate. But obscure needs to be defined. Perhaps there's a shortcut -- dictionaries seem to use the term like they use the term, "archaic." So whatever standard the dictionary uses might suffice -- or use the dictionary itself, if not its standard (e.g.), "If the OED uses the word 'obscure' in its definition, then it's in this list." 2601:204:D200:7000:B98D:6F18:5782:CF5B (talk) 13:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Vozhd[edit]

Are there any words that rhyme with vozhd (note: the "zh" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "s" in "vision", and the "o" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "a" in "father") IsraeliEditor54 (talk) 08:49, 15 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]