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The letters spell the word impede.
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The word is echo.
Guile is an example of a word with two silent letters. Both the u and the final e are silent, which is not to say that they have no use in the word. The u is there to ensure that the g continues to produce a hard sound and not the softer sound in the word judge. The final e is there to change the sound of the i from the i sound in fish to the i sound in bike.
Usually it is not.
No, the word 'pin' does not have the short 'e' sound. Pin is spelled with an 'i' and so it has the short 'i' sound. Other words that sound like pin are lit, pink, and bib.
The word "friend" has a short e sound but is spelled with an ie.
long "E" sound its spelled as "y"
The word "says" (sez) is a unique sound for the AY, but it is related to the past tense "said" (sed) where the AI also has a short E sound, as in the words "again" and "against." The A word many also has a short E sound.
There are no words ending in E where the E has a short E sound. The words spelled with "she" that have short E's include shed, shelf, shell, shelter, shelve, and shepherd.
quiche. suite is a similar sound
Leash does have the long e sound, as if it were spelled leesh, but goose does not. Goose has a silent e sound, as if it were spelled goos.
femme = woman Even though "femme" is spelled with an "e". It is pronounced " F-a-mm" (A sound like in apple)
The only common words are forms of the word jeopardy. Other words with an EO pair have a schwa sound (burgeon, bludgeon, pigeon) not a short E.
No, it does not. The IE vowel pair has a short E sound, to rhyme with bend and send.(In the similarly-spelled word fiend, the IE has a long E sound.)
The word "bury" and its other forms (buried) are probably unique in this regard, although the UE pair in the words guess and guest also have a short E sound.
The best known are the words again and against (uh-gen,uh-genst), and the word said (sed). The word "says" also has a short E sound (sez).