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Silent e

In English orthography, many words feature a silent ⟨e⟩ (single, final, non-syllabic, magic "e"), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English.

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Effect on vowels

Effect on consonants

Truly silent ⟨e⟩

Dropping of silent ⟨e⟩

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In popular culture

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Silent e

Nodes81
Edges80
Triples49
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
Components1

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Silent e

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related to In popular culture · 23
Silent e → Between, British, Derek Griffiths, E's, He, In, In Alphablocks, In The Electric Company, It's, It's Silent, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lions, Look, Magic, Ninja, Read, Roger Limb, Rosanna Hibbert, Silent, The Electric Company
related to External links · 13
Silent e → Archived, Darrell Morris, Early Modern English, Elementarie, Magic, PDF, Questions, Read, Richard MulcasterMulcaster's, Richard MulcasterSilent, Shane Templeton, Tom LehrerLook, Wayback Machine
see also · 4
Silent e → Albanian, CSilent, Gheg, Sounds
is a · 1
Silent e → Ninja

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silent english vowel long words vowels word short sound modern also effect preceding spelling final french example may middle magic

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Silent eis aNinja0.90text
rid /rɪd/instance ofwas reinterpreted synchronically as a marker of the surviving sounds.This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs0.80text
ride /raɪd/instance ofwas reinterpreted synchronically as a marker of the surviving sounds.This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs0.80text
in which the presence of the finalinstance ofwas reinterpreted synchronically as a marker of the surviving sounds.This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs0.80text
unpronouncedinstance ofwas reinterpreted synchronically as a marker of the surviving sounds.This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs0.80text
bikeinstance ofand it is used in modern neologisms0.80text
in which there is no historical reason for the presence of theinstance ofand it is used in modern neologisms0.80text
minuteinstance ofIn a few words0.80text
this may affect the operation of silentinstance ofIn a few words0.80text
Silent erelated to External linksEarly Modern English0.60section
Silent erelated to External linksPDF0.60section
Silent erelated to External linksQuestions0.60section

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