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“Rhythm” doesn’t rhyme with anything and doesn’t contain a letter that’s always a vowel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Masculine_rhymes
I wanted to double-check, but I don't see any other words here that have that property, so it's probably unique!
Schism?
Written. Ridden.
In my dialect, written doesn't work quite as well, probably because that double 't' turns into a glottal stop.
Found the londoner
General American speaker from Ohio, actually. Bottle, though, is boddle for me. Not sure why some words get it
Apparently, there’s an obsolete English word “smitham” that means (or meant) “small lumps of ore random people found.” They were exempt from taxation by English nobility so large mine owners started breaking up large chunks into “smitham” to avoid taxation. Apparently, the Duke of Devonshire put a stop to that in 1760 and the word fell out of use.
So, I think rhythm still counts as weird. Noah Webster was 2 years old in 1760 and the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn’t have it.
"People say the word orange doesn't rhyme with anything"
That's not rhyme, that's assonance.
The Etymology of Orange.
:-D
Orange ( Anglo-Saxon ? English language )
Oranj. ( Slavic? European? etc language )
Naranj. ( Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian language )
Narang. ( Hindi , Sanskrit Indic language )
Narthangai. ( Tamil - South Indian language )
:-D
With them?
Y is always a vowel! I don't know why they tell children it isn't.
A vowel is the core of a syllable. Y is not always that, as in "yes" - it works as a consonant in that word.
It's part of a diphthong with E in that word, two or more vowels making a sound in combination.
It's a consonant. Specifically it's the voiced palatal approximant represented as ⟨j⟩ in IPA.