Statistics for Words with a Silent B

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Definition	Word	% Correct
Young sheep	Lamb	96%
Arm or leg, for example	Limb	90%
Without the ability to feel	Numb	90%
A small piece of bread that breaks off	Crumb	88%
Uterus	Womb	87%
Burial vault	Tomb	85%
Money owed	Debt	82%
To ascend	Climb	80%
Without the ability to speak (now considered pejorative)	Dumb	71%
Hexagonal cells made by bees	Honeycomb	68%
To fail disastrously at the box office	Bomb	65%
Subterranean tunnel system once used as a cemetery	Catacomb	62%
To yield to desire	Succumb	48%
The opposite of certainty	Doubt	46%
Vertical parts of a doorframe	Jamb	42%
Lead ball on a string used to test verticality	Plumb	42%
"Foot" of verse with one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable	Iamb	25%
Not obvious	Subtle	24%