How to pronounce debt

Is the B in debt silent?

Do we pronounce debt and that same? Yes. Phonetically it’s “dowt” and “dett”. The “b” is silent.

Why is K silent before n?

The silent ‘k‘ in words like ‘knight’, ‘knock’ and ‘knob’ is a remnant of Old English, and wasn’t silent at all but was pronounced along with the ‘n‘. Nobody really k-nows why or when it became silent but this change is believed to have transpired sometime around the 16th to 17th centuries.

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Which is the silent letter in the word debt?

Originally Answered: What is the silent letter in the word debt? The ‘b’ is silent. The letter was inserted in the word by writers and scholars to show its relationship to the Latin word ‘debitum’.