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
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
knee, knight, Knife.
Knit
Some examples of 'kn' words with a silent 'k' are: knife, knight, knit, and knuckle.
No, "k" is not the only silent consonant. Other examples include "h" in words like "honest" and "w" in words like "wrestle."
knapsackkneelkneltknewknifeknightknow
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
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 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."
The silent "k" at the beginning of certain words, such as "knight" or "knock," originates from Old English and Middle English, where the "k" was pronounced. Over time, as the language evolved, the pronunciation changed, leading to the "k" becoming silent while the spelling remained the same. This phenomenon reflects the historical development of English and its influences from various languages.
Knight Know Knife Knock
The silent k says kn.
Two words with silent K's include know and knife.