This document discusses silent letters in the English language. It provides examples of letters that can be silent in certain contexts, including a, b, c, ch, d, e, g, gh, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, and y. Common patterns of silent letters are provided such as b silent after m, g silent before n, h silent at the beginning of words, and o silent before n. Over 40 examples of words containing silent letters are listed.

1. SILENT LETTERS
SILENT LETTERS EXAMPLES
a is silent in Secretary - head - mountain - marriage
b is silent:
- After ‘m’ /
- Before /t/
Climb
Debt - subtle - doubt
c is silent:
- Before ‘k’ / ‘t’
- After ‘s’
Black
Scissors - scene - muscle
ch is silent in Yacht -
d is silent in:
Before ‘g’ in the same
syllable
Sandwich - Wednesday - handkerchief - handbag –
Badge - Bridge
e is silent:
- Usually at the end of
words
- Often before ‘d’
-Often before ‘l’
- Often before ‘n’
Every - camera - Tuesday – Wednesday - temperature
Pirate - more
Lonely
Oven
g is silent:
- Before ‘m’ / ‘n’
- In the ending ‘-ing’
Sign - gnome - phlegm - champagne
Saying
gh is silent:
- Before ‘t’
- At the end of many
words
Neighbour- highway
Straight - taught
High - sigh - through

2. h is silent:
- Sometimes at the
beginning of words
- Sometimes after ‘w’
- After ‘g’ / ‘r’
- At the end of words
preceded by a vowel
- Sometimes after ‘t’
Exhausting - exhibition
Honest - heir
What
Ghost - Rhyme
i is silent:
- Sometimes before ‘l’
- Sometimes before ‘n’ Business
k is silent before ‘n’ Know
l is usually silent before ‘d’
/ ‘f’ / ‘m’ / ‘k’
talk - salmon - should - half - would - could - calf - calm -
m is silent in Mnemonic -
n is silent after ‘m’ at the
end of words
Hymn - autumn -
o is silent:
Sometimes before ‘n’
chocolate - leopard - jeopardy -
p is silent at the beginning
of words with the suffix
‘pneu’
- Before ‘s’
Pneumatic
Psalm - psychology
Cupboard - receipt
r is silent in Far - sure - work - garden - person - yesterday - myrrh - dark -
horse - word - tired - iron -
- A single " r " is usually silent between two vowels : are -
s is silent before ‘l’ in some
words
Isle - aisle - island -
t is silent in Listen – Christmas - castle - often - fasten - thistle – whistle -
mortgage -
u is silent after ‘g’ and
before a vowel
Plague
Build - guild - biscuit
w is silent at the beginning
of words followed by ‘r’
Sometimes followed by ‘w’
Write - wrong
Whole
Sword- two- answer- dawn
y is silent in prayer - mayor -