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by pacaro 3356 days ago
Rhymes with quay
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What, gay?

(I wasn't going to, but skimming his words, I can't spot what this is a followup to; so I thought I'd ask, though with that initial jocular quip.)

While "rhyme" unfortunately contains the letter "e", although not the sound; "quay" doesn't contain it, but does have the sound (it's pronounced "key") I couldn't think of another word that rhymes with e but doesn't contain it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay

These will be useful for your next game of Scrabble.

Ki, the plant Cordyline fruticosa from the Pacific islands and China, this word coming from Hawaiian.

Chi or qi, the life force in Chinese philosophy.

Li, a Chinese mile.

Mi and ti, represents the third and seventh notes of a major scale.

... maybe more, I've just found a page on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90#One_sy... (Fi, ghi, gi, shchi, ski (!) and maybe Twi.)

phi?
Not the way you learn to pronounce it in math.