Translations:Wiktionnaire:Actualités/025-avril-2017/33/en

French language have a long tail for rhymes. A large part of French corpora ends with commons endings such as -ier, -ir, -ment, etc. Diversity goes with rarity and this month we will look at the point of the tail. There is some words that does not have rhymes, words with very unique sounds at the end. Using the computer nature of Wiktionary, it was easy to interrogate the database and to check the historical list of rhymeless words, also called orphan rhymes in French (rimes orphelines).