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List of words ending with diaeresis

Here is a classification of all cases of a diaeresis at the end of a French word:

Notes:

  1. There are supposed to be seven words in this case. So, one is missing.

  2. Look at the following sentence:

    "Ai"e! Voici le proble`me que j'ai"

    or, using the -c option:

    Ai:e! Voici le proble`me que j'ai:

    There is an ambiguity between an ai", the small animal, and the indicative future of avoir (first person singular), when followed by what could be a diaeresis mark. Hopefully, the case is solved by the fact that an apostrophe always precedes the verb and almost never the animal.

  3. I did not pay attention to proper nouns, but this one showed up as being fairly evident.

Just to complete this topic, note that it would be wrong to make a rule for all words ending in "igue" as needing a diaerisis. Here are counter-examples:

becfigue be`sigue bigue bordigue bourdigue brigue contre-digue
digue d'intrigue fatigue figue garrigue gigue igue intrigue
ligue prodigue sarigue zigue

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