Words with Silent Letters- Same or Different

Words with silent letters the same or different

with homophones and minimal pairs practice

Listen to your teacher or a classmate reading out two or more words and raise the card saying “The same” or the card saying “Different” depending on the pronunciation. If there are more than two, they are all the same or all different.  

Label the lines below with “S” for the same pronunciation or “D” for different pronunciation. Your teacher will tell you which section or sections you should look at.

Check as a class, then try to find patterns in which letters are silent.

Test each other on the words:

• Play the same holding up cards game in groups, making sure that you pronounce the words identically if they should be the same.
• Spell a word with a silent letter and see if your partner can identify the silent letter and pronounce the word
• Say a word which has a silent letter and see if your partner can identify the silent letter
• Say and spell a word which has a homophone below and see if your partner can spell the homophone

Level 1

1. build/ billed
2. business/ busyness
3. climb/ clime
4. could/ cold
5. hour/ our
6. island/ Iceland/ I’ll land
7. knew/ new
8. know/ no
9. knows/ nose
10. scissor/ skis are
11. should/ sold
12. what/ hat
13. when/ hen
14. where/ wear
15. which/ witch
16. who/ woo
17. why/ Y
18. would/ wood
19. wrap/ rap
20. wrapped/ rapped/ rapt
21. write/ rite/ right
22. wrong/ long

 

Level 2

23. aisle/ isle/ I’ll
24. comb/ cone
25. honest/ on its
26. knee/ key
27. knit/ nit
28. lamb/ lame
29. muscle/ mussel
30. thumb/ sum
31. whale/ hail
32. wrote/ rote

 

Level 3

33. debt/ debit
34. fasten/ fast and
35. gourmet/ Gromit
36. honour/ on our
37. knight/ night
38. knot/ not
39. knowledge/ no ledge
40. receipt/ recede
41. rhyme/ rim
42. sachet/ satchel
43. scene/ seen
44. sword/ sawed/ soared
45. tomb/ doom
46. wheel/ we’ll
47. wheel/ heel
48. whether/ weather
49. whole/ hole
50. wrist/ whist/ list

 

Level 4

51. beret/ belly
52. bidet/ V Day
53. crumbs/ crams
54. campaign/ champagne
55. chalet/ sally
56. coup/ coupe
57. damn/ dam
58. descent/ decent
59. dumb/ dam
60. heir/ air
61. heir/ hair
62. iron/ ion
63. hymn/ him
64. kneel/ Neil
65. psychic/ sidekick
66. reigns/ rains/ reins
67. reign/ Reagan
68. rhetoric/ hectic/ electric
69. rhino/ lino
70. scent/ sent
71. soften/ soft and
72. subtle/ Seattle
73. whine/ wine
74. wholly/ holy
75. wholly/ holly

 

Level 5

76. acquit/ aquavit
77. aghast/ a ghost
78. ascent/ assent
79. bristle/ Bristol
80. bustle/ basil
81. cachet/ cashew
82. colonel/ kernel
83. corps/ Corp./ corpse
84. corps/ core
85. debris/ Deborah
86. depots/ depose
87. faux/ foe
88. faux/ fox/ fax/ folks
89. feign/ Fagin/ fine
90. ghoul/ hall/ goal
91. gnash/ Nash
92. gnash/ gash
93. gnat/ nut
94. the gnats/ the Nats
95. gnaw/ nor
96. gnaw/ no/ gore
97. gnome/ norm
98. jamb/ jam
99. knap/ cap
100. knap/ nap
101. knead/ kneed/ need
102. knoll/ coal
103. limb/ limp
104. moisten/ moist and
105. nestle/ Nestle
106. numb/ number
107. pestle/ pest
108. plumb/ plum
109. pseud/ sued
110. pseud/ pseudo
111. rapport/ report
112. succumb/ scum
113. thistle/ this’ll
114. valet/ ballet
115. whet/ wet
116. whey/ way/ weigh
117. womb/ Womble
118. wreck/ rec
119. wrest/ rest
120. wretch/ retch
121. wriggle/ wiggle
122. wring/ ring
123. writ/ lit
124. writhe/ lithe
125. wronged/ longed
126. wrought/ wart
127. wrung/ rung
128. wry/ rye
129. wry/ why

 

Homophones of words with silent letters practice

Write a word which has exactly the same pronunciation as each word below but is spelt with a silent letter.

Level 1

billed                                                                          clime

our                                                                              new

no                                                                                nose

wear                                                                           witch

Y                                                                                 wood

rap                                                                              rapped/ rapt

rite/ right

 

Level 2

I’ll                                                                                nit

mussel                                                         rote

 

Level 3

night                                                                           not

seen                                                                           sawed/ soared

we’ll                                                                            weather

hole

 

Level 4

dam                                                                            air

him                                                                              Neil

rains/ reins                                                                sent

wine                                                                            holy

 

Level 5

kernel                                                                         core

foe                                                                               Nash

the Nats                                                                     nor

jam                                                                              nap

need                                                                           plum

sued                                                                           wet

way/ weigh                                                                rec

rest                                                                              retch

ring                                                                             rung

rye

 

Check above. Other answers might sometimes be possible, so please check with your teacher if you wrote something different.