Which words have silent consonant pair?

Answer 1

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)

Answer 2

Here are a few for you:

lamb

knife

knight

hour

paradigm

mnemonic

Answer 3

Many words have a silent consonant: dumb, plumb, lamb, pterodactyl, psalm...

Answer 4

Silent 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

Answer 5

The 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.

Answer 6

bored, did, dear, mom, gin

Answer 7

plumb