I am trying to find words that has silent letters for each letter of the alphabet.?

Question

For example Pneumonia has a silent P. I am trying to get one for each letter of the alphabet. I will of course take any repeats of letters but I want one.

The reason behind it is I am trying to pull a prank on someone because we often have to read the alphabet via the military alphabet to people over the phone. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc. I want to read him a silent alphabet and torture the hell out of him :)

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Thanks for any help :)

Answer 1

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a is silent in head, bread, deaf, meant

b is silent in debt, lamb, bomb, tomb

c is silent in muscle, blackguard, yacht, indict

d is silent in Wednesday, handkerchief, handbag

e is silent in pirate, more, have, give

f is silent in stiff, cuff, scoff

g is silent in gnaw, gnome, phlegm, straight

h is silent in honour, heir, ghost, night

i is silent in business, fashion, cushion

k is silent in know, knee, knock, blackguard

l is silent in talk, folk, salmon, colonel

m is silent in mnemonic

n is silent in hymn

o is silent in leopard, jeopardy

p is silent in psalm, pneumatic, cupboard, receipt

q(u) is silent in lacquer

r is silent in myrrh, catarrh

s is silent in isle, aisle, viscount, mess

t is silent in often, thistle, fasten, mortgage

u is silent in build, guild, plague

w is silent in whole, write, sword

y is silent in prayer, mayor

z is silent in rendezvous

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I don't think this can be done for every letter as first letter, but at least this should help.

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I like your idea. Enjoy responsibly ;)

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Answer 2

If you want to be confusing on the phone, you don't necessarily need just silent letters. For example A could be Affect and E could be Effect. Also, B as in bog, c as in cog, d as in dog. Things like that.

Answer 3

Knitting, Knight, Tsunami, aisle, Gnaw, Honour, Phone

Hope It Helps!