People have often said there’s no rhyme for the word "orange." Not so.
Let’s first divide the word into two halves, two words. The second half is easy. "Range." This could be either "an area over which anything moves" or "extent or scope" or "The horizontal distance covered by a projectile," etc. (These definitions are from Webster’s Pocket Dictionary.)
The first half is not that difficult either. An "Or" sound. Now, if we spin the Patented Karl Seely Rhyming Wheel and see which of these sounds can be added to "or" we get at least 25 different common English words. A Boor Range could be a really seedy bar. Or it could be Boar Range, a place where Ted Nugent could bring the kids and hunt wild boar.
Let’s say I was tossing oranges at a target, and they kept falling short. You could say I was giving my oranges a rather "poor range." If I put a little mustard on them I would give them "more range." I might then get them to the "core range" of the target area.
None of these rhymes are really useful. We’d probably have seen some poetry by Byron or Shelley or Yeats that employed them if they were. We don’t sit around thinking of the large scoreboard as the "score range", or the camp fire as the "s’more range" or the "lore range." If we sat long enough trying to come up with a useful rhyme, we’d end up with a rather "sore range" right on our backside.
Technically, however, these do in fact rhyme with "orange." From the silly (snore range) to the dirty (whore range) to the almost useful (your range). If we make the words plural, rhymes for "oranges," we automatically double the number. 50 rhymes for "orange" and "oranges."
