Words with Silent Letters- Hangman

Words with Silent Letters- Hangman
with homophones practice
Look at the section or sections below which your teacher tells you to, and do one of these
things:
 Choose one of the words with silent letters on the left below and write one gap for

each letter of the word, e.g. “__ ___ __” for “who”

 Choose one of the words with silent letters and write one gap for each letter of the

word with brackets around the silent letter, e.g. “___ ___ ___ (___)” for “bomb”.

 Choose one of the words with silent letters and its homophone on one line below and

write gaps for both, e.g. “___ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___” for “wrap/ rap”.

 Choose one of the words with silent letters on the left or one of the homophones

without silent letters on the right and write a gap for each letter of that one word, e.g.
“___ ___ ___” for “dam”

Your partner(s) will then guess the letters in the word or words one letter at a time (in any
order). Write the letters in any gaps they should be if they guess correctly, e.g. in two gaps
if they say “A” and there are two As in the word or words. Write that letter with a cross
through it if it doesn’t appear anywhere in the word or words. If they make ten wrong
guesses before they complete the whole word or words, then they lose that round. After
guessing the whole word correctly, they should identify any silent letters, pronounce the
word correctly and perhaps brainstorm a homophone.

Ask about any words below which you don’t understand, can’t pronounce, or can’t identify
the silent letter in, then test each other on the words in the same section(s) in other ways:
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Spell one word and see if your partner can pronounce it

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Pronounce one word and see if your partner can identify the silent letter

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Spell one word and see if your partner can pronounce it and then spell a homophone

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Say a silent letter and see if your partner can say and/ or spell an example with that si-
lent letter (with other examples not on the worksheet also okay)

Levels 1 and 2
1. hour/ our
2. knew/ new
3. know/ no
4. knows/ nose
5. muscle/ mussel
6. where/ wear
7. which/ witch
8. why/ Y
9. would/ wood
10. wrap/ rap
11. write/ right/ rite

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Levels 3 and 4
1. aisle/ isle/ I’ll
2. build/ billed
3. damn/ dam
4. heir/ air
5. hymn/ him
6. knight/ night
7. knot/ not
8. reigns/ rains/ reins
9. scene/ seen
10. scent/ sent
11. sword/ sawed/ soared
12. wheel/ we’ll
13. whether/ weather
14. whole/ hole

Level 5
1. ascent/ assent
2. climbs/ climes
3. colonel/ kernel
4. corps/ core
5. faux/ foe
6. gnaw/ nor
7. knap/ nap
8. knead/ kneed/ need
9. knit/ nit
10. plumb/ plum
11. pseud/ sued
12. the gnats/ the Nats
13. whet/ wet
14. whey/ way/ weigh
15. whine/ wine
16. wholly/ holy
17. wreck/ rec
18. wrest/ rest
19. wretch/ retch
20. wring/ ring
21. wrote/ rote
22. wrung/ rung
23. wry/ rye

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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.

Levels 1 and 2
our
new
no
nose
mussel
wear
witch
Y
wood
rap
right/ rite

Levels 3 and 4
I’ll
billed
dam
air
him
night
not
rains/ reins
seen
sent
sawed/ soared
we’ll
weather
hole

Level 5
assent

climes

kernel

core

foe

nor

nap

need

nit

plum

sued

the Nats

wet

way

wine

holy

rec

rest

retch

ring

rote

rung

rye

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