Know,Knight,Knife?

Hi

I would say they are silent k words. It is the first letter that is silent, by the way. I'm afraid you can't say 'the first alphabet' in that way

Dave

Thanks for your reply. Silent K is okay. But I'm looking for a word/classification that we can use to represent all such words. For example Know,Write,Wrap..

Hi

In that case, I would say 'silent first letter' or 'silent initial letter'

It's an interesting question how many letters can do this. Odd examples are: Czar, Djibouti and Pterodactyl

Dave

vts nairWhen we pronounce such words their first alphabet is silent.

When we pronounce such words the first letter is silent.

There are at least 2 reasons. First, that the initial letter in an Old English word was pronounced in the past, but not anymore (knee, knight, ...).
Second, that the word was taken from another language, which had

vts nairI'm looking for a word/classification that we can use to represent all such words.

I have never heard of any such word. I don't think we have such a word.

If you're only interested in words whose initial consonant is silent, then you can use "words with initial consonant silent".

If you're interested in all words with any letter sil