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They said there’s no English rhyme for “silver.” Eminem just obliterated the challenge.

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27.09.2026

It started with an innocuous Tweet from a popular account called UberFacts.

“There’s no word in English that rhymes with ‘silver’” the post read. For long-time English speakers, this isn’t exactly news. We’ve been hearing about random words that seemingly have no rhymes for as long as we’ve been talking.

A user then decided to call in an expert to confirm whether this was actually true. So, they tagged rapper Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, in a post issuing a challenge: “You have 24 hours!” the user joked. If anyone could disprove the so-called fact, it would be him, the wordplay master himself who once rhymed “calm and ready” with “Mom’s spaghetti.”

There’s no word in English that rhymes with “silver”— UberFacts (@UberFacts) August 11, 2025

There’s no word in English that rhymes with “silver”— UberFacts (@UberFacts) August 11, 2025

Watch him crush the challenge

Eminem himself responded a day later and completely obliterated the challenge:

Stans documentary I liked your film sir,” he wrote in his own post.

If you’re familiar with his music, you can almost hear the post in his voice. You can imagine him ripping this off as a verse in one of his songs. You also immediately get the sense that he could have........

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