Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A letter or combination of letters which in the customary pronunciation of a word has no sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
letter orcombination of letters employed inspelling aword but notpronounced .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek. Compare diphthong.
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