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Silent Letters: A Huge List of Spelling Words with Silent Letters in English


A silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word’s pronunciation. One of the noted difficulties of English spelling is a high number of silent letters, they make the spelling of words different from their pronunciation.

Silent Letters from A-Z

Silent Letters A

artistically, logically,  musically, romantically, stoically

Silent Letters B

aplomb, bomb, climb, comb, coulomb, crumb, debt, doubt, dumb, jamb, lamb, limb, numb, plumb, subtle, succumb, thumb, tomb, womb

Silent Letters C

abscess, abscend, ascent, conscience, conscious, crescent, descend, descent, disciple, evanesce, fascinate, fluorescent, muscle, obscene, resuscitate, scenario, science, scene, scissors

Silent Letters D

bridge, edge, handkerchief, handsome, handful, grandson, ledger, sandwich, Wednesday

Silent Letters E

plaque, vegetable, bridge, clothes, hate, name, like, breathe

Silent Letters G

align, assign, benign, champagne, cologne, consign, design, feign, foreign, gnarly, gnash, gnat, gnaw, gnome, gnomic, high, light, reign, resign, sign

Silent Letters H

anchor, archeology, architect, archives, chaos, character, characteristic, charisma, chemical, choreograph, chorus, Christian, Christmas, echo, hour, ghost, when, where, whether, which, while, white, why

Silent Letters K

knack, knave, knead, knee, kneel, kneel, knew, knickers, knife, knight, knit, knob, knock, knoll, knot, know, knowledge, knuckle

Silent Letters L

would, should, calf, half, salmon, talk, yolk

Silent Letters P

psychology, pneumonia, pseudo, psychiatrist, psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychotic, receipt, corps, coup, cupboard, psalm, raspberry

Silent Letters S

aisle, island, debris, isle, patios, viscount

Silent Letters T

apostle, bristle, bustle, castle, fasten, glisten, hustle, listen, moisten, often

Silent Letters N

autumn, column, condemn, damn, hymn, solemn, chimney, government

Silent Letters U

baguette, biscuit, build, circuit, disguise, guess, guest, guide, guild, guilt, guise, guitar, rogue

Silent Letters W

awry, playwright, sword, wrack, wrangle, wrap, wrapper, wrath, wreak, wreath, wreck, wrestle, wriggle, wring, wrinkle, wrist, writ, write, wrong, wrote


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