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The word orange is notable as one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The closest "real" approximation is door-hinge. Some made-up words have rhymed with orange, such as grorange (a blend of green and the color orange, found in a Mario Brothers novel) and korange, a hypothetical hybrid of the orange and the kumquat. Tom Lehrer once rhymed on orange in the verse:

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.

This is an example of extreme enjambement. A children's rhyme from Mother Goose features a rhyme with orange as part of a solution for another tricky word, porringer:

What is the rhyme for porringer?
The king he had a daughter fair
And give the Prince of Orange her.

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