Silent Letter Here is a list of common letter combinations with silent letters. This list contains most of the silent letters that give English as a second language students difficulties. Silent B B is not pronounced when following M at the end of a word. Climb / crumb / dumb / comb Silent C C is not pronounced in the ending "scle" muscle Silent D D is not pronounced in the following common words: Handkerchief / sandwich / Wednesday Silent E E is not pronounced at the end of words and usually makes the vowel long. Hope / drive / gave / write / site Silent G G is not often not pronounced when followed by an N Champagne / foreign / sign / feign Silent GH GH is not pronounced before T and at the end of many words Thought / through / daughter / light / might / right / fight / weigh Silent H H is not pronounced when following W. Some speakers whisper the H before the W. What / who / when / where / whether / why <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent H H is not pronounced at the beginning of many words. Use the article "an" with unvoiced H. Here are some of the most common: Hour / honest / honor / heir / herb <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Pronounced H H is pronounced at the beginning of these common words. Use the article "a" with voiced H. Hill / history / height / happy / hangover <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent K K is not pronounced when followed by N at the beginning of a word. Knife / knee / know / knock / knowledge <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent L L is often not pronounced before L, D, F, M, K. Calm / half / salmon / talk / balk / would / should <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent N N is not pronounced following M at the end of a word. Autumn / hymn <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent P P is not pronounced at the beginning of many words using the suffix "psych" and "pneu". Psychiatrist / pneumonia / psychotherapy / psychotic <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent S S is not pronounced before L in the following words: Island / isle <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent T T is not pronounced in these common words: Castle / Christmas / fasten / listen / often / whistle / thistle <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent U U is not pronounced before after G and before a vowel. Guess / guidance / guitar / guest <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent W W is not pronounced at the beginning of a word followed by an R. Wrap / write / wrong <!-[if !supportEmptyParas]-> <!-[endif]-> Silent W W is not pronounced with these three pronouns: Who / whose / whom
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