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privilege

No D. There is no D anywhere in privilege.

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    privilege

    No D. The vowels run i-i-e.

The trick

No D, and the vowels go i-i-e. PRIV-I-LEGE.

The phantom D arrives from knowledge and acknowledge, which do have one. The -lege ending here comes from Latin lex, law—the same root as legal, which also has no D.

Now go delete the D.