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Words With Silent Letters

Look at the words below and read them out loud. Putting them in a sentence will help you better remember which words include silent letters.

Words With Silent B

The letter B is often silent when it is placed at the end of a word and is preceded by M (-MB). 

  • Aplomb
  • Bomb
  • Climb
  • Comb
  • Crumb
  • Debt
  • Doubt
  • Dumb
  • Jamb
  • Lamb
  • Limb
  • Numb
  • Plumb
  • Subtle
  • Succumb
  • Thumb
  • Tomb
  • Womb

Words With Silent C

The letter C is often silent when it is placed after an S (SC).

  • Abscess
  • Ascend / ascent
  • Conscience
  • Conscious
  • Crescent
  • Descend
  • Disciple
  • Evanesce
  • Fascinate
  • Fluorescent
  • Muscle
  • Obscene
  • Resuscitate
  • Scenario
  • Scene
  • Scissors

Words With Silent D

The letter D is often silent when it is placed in the middle of a word, either after an N or before a G (-DG-, -ND-).

  • Bridge
  • Edge
  • Handkerchief (**NOTE: in the word "hand", the D is not silent)
  • Handsome
  • Handful
  • Grandson
  • Ledger
  • Sandwich
  • Wednesday

Words With Silent E

Many words contain a silent E, especially at the end of a word. Usually these words end in Vowel + Consonant + Silent E. The list is very extensive; here are some examples:

  • Debate
  • Desire
  • Excite
  • Kite
  • Love
  • Make
  • Name

In American English, we tend to drop silent E's in some words.

  • Judgement (BrE) / judgment (AmE)
  • Programme (BrE) / program (AmE)

Words With Silent G

The letter G is oftentimes silent when it is placed before N, mostly when GN appears at the beginning or the end of the word. It is also usually silent when it appears before H (GH).

  • Align
  • Assign
  • Benign
  • Champagne
  • Cologne
  • Consign
  • Design
  • Feign
  • Foreign
  • Gnarl
  • Gnash
  • Gnaw
  • Gnome
  • Gnomic
  • High
  • Light
  • Resign
  • Sign

Words With Silent H

The letter H is sometimes silent when it is placed after C (CH) and it is always silent when it appears after some consonants (GH, WH, RH). Here are +30 words with silent H:

  • Anchor
  • Archeology (in BrE: archaeology)
  • Architect / architecture
  • Archive
  • Borough
  • Chaos
  • Character / characteristic
  • Charisma
  • Chemical / chemistry / chemist
  • Choreograph
  • Chorus
  • Christmas / Christian
  • Echo
  • Heir
  • Herbs (**only in AmE)
  • Hour
  • Honest / honor
  • Ghost
  • Psychology
  • Rhino
  • Schedule (**only in AmE)
  • Scheme
  • School
  • Tech / technology / techie
  • Thai / Thailand
  • Thigh
  • Thorough
  • Vehicle
  • Weigh
  • What / when / where / why / which
  • White
  • While

Words With Silent K

The letter K is silent when it appears at the beginning of a word followed by N (KN-).

  • Knack
  • Knave
  • Knead
  • Knee
  • Kneel
  • Knell
  • Knickers
  • Knife
  • Knight
  • Knit
  • Knob
  • Knock
  • Knoll
  • Knot
  • Know / knew / known
  • Knowledge
  • Knuckle

Words With Silent L

The letter L is often silent in the combination ALF, ALM, and OULD.

  • Almond
  • Balm
  • Behalf
  • Calf
  • Chalk
  • Could
  • Folk
  • Half
  • Palm
  • Salmon
  • Should
  • Stalk
  • Talk
  • Walk
  • Would
  • Yolk

Words With Silent N

The letter N is often silent when it appears at the end of a word preceded by the letter M (-MN).

  • Autumn
  • Column
  • Condemn
  • Damn
  • Hymn
  • Solemn

Words With Silent P

The letter P is often silent at the beginning of a word followed by S (PS-).

  • Coup
  • Cupboard
  • Psychology
  • Pneumonia
  • Pseudo
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychotic
  • Receipt

Words With Silent T

  • Apostle
  • Bristle
  • Bustle
  • Castle
  • Fasten
  • Glisten
  • Hustle
  • Listen
  • Moisten
  • Often

Words With Silent U

The silent U is used to soften the letter G (GU-). It is also silent in most words with the structure -UIT or -UILT.

  • Baguette
  • Biscuit
  • Build
  • Building
  • Built
  • Circuit
  • Disguise
  • Guess
  • Guest
  • Guide
  • Guild
  • Guilt
  • Guilty
  • Guise
  • Guitar
  • Rogue
  • Silhouette

Words With Silent W

The letter W is often silent when it is placed before the letter R (WR).

  • Awry
  • Playwright
  • Sword
  • Wrack
  • Wrangle
  • Wrap
  • Wrapper
  • Wrath
  • Wreak
  • Wreath
  • Wreck
  • Wrestle
  • Wriggle
  • Wring
  • Wrinkle
  • Wrist
  • Writ
  • Write / wrote / written
  • Wrong
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