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There are a few words where one or more pronunciations create an actual silent vowel, such as the I in "business" and in "family" or the E in "different."
Vowels are often "silent" (not sounded) when paired with other vowels (digraphs), or can affect the pronunciation of other vowels without being sounded themselves.
Silent A
- In EA words -- each, peach, teach, team, bean, cleave, heave, lead (verb or primary position), fear, gear, bread, meant
- In AI words - aisle
- In OA or AO words -- boar, coal, loan, float, cocoa, pharaoh,
Silent E
- Ending words with vowel-consonant-vowel -- care, fate, fete, kite, like, dole, hone, dote, cute, fuse, butte,
- In EA words -- bear, pear, tear, lead (element)
- In EI words -- heist, feisty
- In EU words -- feud, eugenics, euphemism
- In OE words -- shoe, toe
- In UE words -- fuel, hue, queue
Silent I
- In AI words-- bail, pail, tail, lain, paint, bait, aileron, maize
- In EI and IE words -- deceive, believe, retrieve
- In IO words -- fashion, cushion
- In UI words -- juice, sluice, suit
Silent O (other than OU as ow, or oo as in rouge, roulette)
- EO words -- jeopardy, leopard, people
- OU words -- country, southern
Silent U (other than OU as ow, or oo as in rouge, roulette)
- AU words : gauge, laugh, guard
- UE words : guess, guest, league, plague, tongue, catalogue
- UI words : guide, guile, guilt, build, guitar
- Other words through usage : business (U sounds like I)
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoHere are a few for you:
lamb
knife
knight
hour
paradigm
mnemonic
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∙ 14y agoMany words have a silent consonant: dumb, plumb, lamb, pterodactyl, psalm...
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∙ 14y agoSilent B: debt, doubt, crumb, dumb, numb, thumb, plumber, tomb, lamb, climb, bomb, comb
Silent K: knee, kneel, knelt, know, knew, known, knowledge, knife, knight, knot
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∙ 11y agoThe words spelled with -IGHT have an unpronounced GH that make the I a long vowel.
E.g. light, might, sight
This is called a silent digraph.
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∙ 11y agobored, did, dear, mom, gin
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∙ 11y agoplumb
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a lot of latin based languages have this such as French like: vous pronounced: voo then vous-appellez pronounced: voos apple-a. But not in English.
