Silent w: wrinkle, wrestle, wreck, wreckage, answer, write, who, sword, toward, two, whole, whom, whose, wrote, wrap, wrist
Silent k: knuckle, knowledge, know, kneel, knee, knelt, knew, known, knife, knot
Sword. Knife.
Wrung
Writ
Write
Written
Wrap
Wrist
Wren
Wrestle
Wreak
Wreath
Who
Two
Toward
knitting
knit
knitted
Knight
knuckle, knowledge, know, kneel, knife, knight, knot, known, knelt...hope i helped! =]
Knew
Knew.
knew
Silent consonants are words that are spelled with silent letters. Example: Knife - the k is silent - and it is pronounced "nife" but is spelled knife
The KN makes an N sound, so the K is silent. The CK pair always has a K sound, so either the C or the K is a superfluous consonant.
The silent letter is the first k.
The final E is silent, but does not make the other E a long vowel. (There are two silent consonants as well, the K and the D.)
"Silent letters" are letters found in the spelling of some words in a language ( like English and French ) , but these letters are not pronounced.Examples:* The letter "k" is not pronounced in these words: kneekneelknightknot* The letter "h" is not pronounced in: whalewhatwhitewhy* The letters in bold in the following words are silent letters: listenchalktalkwalk
Knit
knee, knight, Knife.
knapsackkneelkneltknewknifeknightknow
Silent consonants are words that are spelled with silent letters. Example: Knife - the k is silent - and it is pronounced "nife" but is spelled knife
The origins of silent K are difficult to pin down. What we do know is that the k wasn't always silent, especially in words of Germanic origin. Just as it is in German, the k was actually pronounced and many of the words which now have silent k originally began with that distinctive clicking sound. However, some time after the Chaucerian era, the k sound disappeared from the kn combination. There is speculation that it suddenly became hard to pronounce, and was just one of many linguistic changes after the Great Vowel Shift.This answer derived from http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-silent-k
The silent "k" in English words usually comes from Old English or loanwords from other languages like French. In many cases, the pronunciation changed over time while the spelling remained the same, resulting in the silent "k."
Knight Know Knife Knock
Knee, knife, knock, knight
Two words with silent K's include know and knife.
The silent k says kn.
Knife. Knit. Kneel. Know. Kneer. Knead. Knowledge.
for the same reason K is silent in Kdouche