The words include:
heir (heirloom)
hour (hourly)
honest (honesty, honestly)
honor (honorary, honorable, honorably, honoree, honoring)
In some dialects
herb (herbal, herbaceous)
In some other words from French or Spanish
hors d'oeuvres
hombre
The letter "h" is silent in the word "honesty" because it is a silent letter. In English, there are several words where the letter "h" is silent, and "honesty" is one of them. The silent "h" is a historical remnant from the word's origin in Old French.
e
its the letter H is silent
Helium
because in most words that has an h the h is silent
Harsh, hatch and heath begin and end with the letter h. Additional words include hitch, hooch and hunch.
The 'h' is silent as in 'on-ist'
Hiroshima and Holocaust are history words. They begin with the letter h.
There are many silent h words such as herb. Other silent h words include honor, honest, hour, rhyme, and thyme.
"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
Words like light, height, night have a 'h' which isn't pronounced, the letter instead is combined with others to make a sound.
The letter h.