What are silent letters called?

What are silent letters called?

Silent letters are letters that are not pronounced in words, even though they exist in the spelling. Auxiliary and dummy are the two major groups of silent letters. Auxiliary silent letters work together with another letter to produce a specific sound. Auxiliary silent letters are either endocentric or exocentric.

What are the sounds of letters called?

Letter-sound knowledge is knowledge of the letters or groups of letters which represent the individual speech sounds in language. Letters and letter patterns that represent speech sounds are also called ‘graphemes’, while the speech sounds of a language are also called ‘phonemes’.

What are some words that have silent letters?

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