What is a silent letter?
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.
Here’s a list of “silent letters E” in English.
- Age
- Breathe
- Bridge
- Change
- Clothes
- Gene
- Hate
- Like
- Love
- Please
- Vegetable
