SILENT LETTERS IN ENGLISH | Learning English

SILENT LETTERS IN ENGLISH

Silent letters are letters that you can’t hear when you say the word, but that are there when you write the word.

Silent letters may give an insight into the meaning or origin of a word, e.g. vineyard suggests vines more than the phonetic ‘vinyard’ would.

Silent letters help to show long vowels e.g. rid/ride

Silent letters help to show ‘hard’ consonants e.g. guest/gest

They can help to connect different forms of the same word e.g. resign/resignation

Silent Letters In English
B	Bomb , crumb,  debt,   doubt,   limb,   numb,   trumb,   subtle,  Comb.
K	Knee,  know,  knight,  knife,  knob,  knock,  knowledge,  knot.
L	Talk,  walk,  half,  Palm,  chalk,  calm,  salmon,   would,  should
H	Ghost,  Honest,  Hour,   rhythm,  whether,  while,  when
C	Abscess,  abscend,  ascent,  conscience,  conscious,  descend,  descent,  fascinate.
G	Align,  assign,  consign,  design,  foreign,  gnat,   High,  Light,