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​Words with Silent Letters in English

Did you know that more than half of the words in the English language have silent letters in them?

​This is why many English words are pronounced differently than they are spelled. Here is a list of the most popular words with silent letters for you to study.
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A – artistically, logically, musically, romantically, stoically

B – bomb, climb, comb, crumb, debt, doubt, dumb, lamb, limb, numb, plumber, subpoena, subtle, succumb, thumb, tomb, womb

C – acquire, acquit, Connecticut, czar, muscle, scissors

CH – yacht

D – badge, edge, handkerchief, handsome, hedge, wedge, Wednesday 

E – bridge, clothes, vegetable

G – align, champagne, design, diaphragm, foreign, gnarl,  gnash, gnat, gnaw, gnome, gnu, high, reign, resign, sign

GH – alight, drought, eight, light, right, though, thought, weigh

H – choir, exhaust, ghost, hour, honor, honest, herb, rhyme, rhythm, thyme, Thailand, what, when, where, whether, while, whit, white,
why, which

I – business, parliament

KN words where the k is silent: knack, knee, knew, knife, knight, knickers, knitting, knob, knock, knot, know, knuckle

L – calf, calm, chalk, could, folk, half, palm, salmon, talk, walk, would, yolk

M – mnemonic

N – autumn, column, damn, government, hymn, solemn

O – sophomore, opossum

P – corps, coup, cupboard, pneumonia, psalm, pterodactyl, pumpkin, raspberry, receipt

S – aisle, island, debris, isle

T – beret, butcher, castle, Chevrolet, Christmas, depot, fasten, listen, match, mortgage, often, scratch, soften, trestle, tzar, watch, whistle,
witch, wrestle

TH – asthma, clothes

U – biscuit, building, guard, ​guess, guest, guilty, guitar, rogue, tongue, vogue

W – answer, sword, two, whole, wrap, wreck, wren, wrestling, wriggle, wrinkle, wrist, writing, wrong, wrote

X – faux

​Z – rendezvous
 
 
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​Words with Silent Letters in English

Did you know that more than half of the words in the English language have silent letters in them?

​This is why many English words are pronounced differently than they are spelled. Here is a list of the most popular words with silent letters for you to study.
Picture
A – artistically, logically, musically, romantically, stoically

B – bomb, climb, comb, crumb, debt, doubt, dumb, lamb, limb, numb, plumber, subpoena, subtle, succumb, thumb, tomb, womb

C – acquire, acquit, Connecticut, czar, muscle, scissors

CH – yacht

D – badge, edge, handkerchief, handsome, hedge, wedge, Wednesday 

E – bridge, clothes, vegetable

G – align, champagne, design, diaphragm, foreign, gnarl,  gnash, gnat, gnaw, gnome, gnu, high, reign, resign, sign

GH – alight, drought, eight, light, right, though, thought, weigh

H – choir, exhaust, ghost, hour, honor, honest, herb, rhyme, rhythm, thyme, Thailand, what, when, where, whether, while, whit, white,
why, which

I – business, parliament

KN words where the k is silent: knack, knee, knew, knife, knight, knickers, knitting, knob, knock, knot, know, knuckle

L – calf, calm, chalk, could, folk, half, palm, salmon, talk, walk, would, yolk

M – mnemonic

N – autumn, column, damn, government, hymn, solemn

O – sophomore, opossum

P – corps, coup, cupboard, pneumonia, psalm, pterodactyl, pumpkin, raspberry, receipt

S – aisle, island, debris, isle

T – beret, butcher, castle, Chevrolet, Christmas, depot, fasten, listen, match, mortgage, often, scratch, soften, trestle, tzar, watch, whistle,
witch, wrestle

TH – asthma, clothes

U – biscuit, building, guard, ​guess, guest, guilty, guitar, rogue, tongue, vogue

W – answer, sword, two, whole, wrap, wreck, wren, wrestling, wriggle, wrinkle, wrist, writing, wrong, wrote

X – faux

​Z – rendezvous