What are the Silent letters in rhyme?

Answer 1

You can use any letters since it's just like variables in math. They don't really mean anything but you can substitute them to shorten things and to stand for expressions. However, the first letters of the alphabet are often used according to the order they are normally arranged. For example: abb acc ddeeff (for Pindaric odes)

Answer 2

The most common "silent letters" (they influence pronunciation of other vowels) are the letters E that follow a vowel and a consonant (e.g. date, bite, dote, cute). A pair of consonants GH is silent in words such as fight, height (also silent E), and fought.

Here are some other silent letter words (see related questions):

Silent A : beat, heat, and other AI/EA/OA pairs: aisle, team, spread, heaven, boat, cocoa

Silent B : (MB and BT words) dumb, thumb, tomb, debt, doubt, subtle

Silent C : indict, brick, black (CK pair), scene, science, yacht (silent CH)

Silent D : badge, fudge, Wednesday

Silent E (see above) also :giraffe, pairs such as pie, floe, blue

Silent F : only double FF

Silent G (see above, with H) also: gnat, gnome, sign, campaign, foreign, diaphragm, design

Silent H (see above, with G in high, sigh, weigh, sleigh) also: ghost, rhyme, rhombus, rhododendron, scheme;

what, where, wheat and other WH words, and "lost" H sounds in hour and honor

Silent I : AI words such as aim, laid, pail, pain; EI/IE pairs in believe, receive; UI in juice, sluice

Silent J : (none?)

Silent K : KN words such as knife, knight, knee, knowledge

Silent L : calf, half, could, would, should, salmon; AW sound in walk, talk, solder.

(* the L has a different sound in calm, palm, yolk, but is not silent)

Silent M : mnemonics

Silent N : MN pairs, such as autumn, condemn, solemn, column, hymn

Silent O : EO pairs such as people, jeopardy, leopard

Silent P (not including PH which has an F sound): pneumonia, ptomaine, pteradactyl, raspberry, receipt, psalm, psychic, psychology, and pseudonym.

Silent Q : (none?)

Silent R : February (some dialects)

Silent S : island, aisle

Silent T : castle, mortgage, listen, kitchen, soften, tsar, tsunami, whistle, and Christmas;

also CH pairs in watch, stitch, clutch, and words from French: depot, potpourri, Ballet

Silent U : not counting the QU words like squash, squeeze; there is queue (pronounced "Q"), and also vowel pairs like guess, gauge, laugh, guide, build, guild, buoyant, league, plague (silent UE)

Silent V: (none?)

Silent W : sword, two, who, answer, and OW pairs, bow, flow, window, shadow

Silent X : (none -- makes Z sound leading syllables)

Silent Y : ending as with E, in vowel pairs: bay, day, pay, clay, obey, key

Silent Z : only double ZZ

Answer 3

The letter "n" is not pronounced, therefore, it is the silent letter in the word "hymn".

Answer 4

There are no individual silent letters, they only become silent when they form part of a word, such as the letter 'p' in Psychotic and the letter 'u' in colour.

Answer 5

Silent E's:

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Answer 6

Many words (for example, "example") have a silent "e" at the end.

Weigh has silent "g" and "h".

Doubt has a silent "b".

Afghanistan has a silent "h".

Answer 7

The first 'h' is silent. The word is pronounced 'rithum'

Answer 8

It is y because when you say the word hymn it doesn't pronounce the y.

Answer 9

what is a silent consonant for hymnal

Answer 10

h