French Minimal Pairs


Fait /è/ vs fête /feit/ vs faît /fait/
Fact vs feast vs first

Fée = /e/
Fait = /eh/
Fai = ei
Fête = /ei/
faît = ai

Open vs close syllable
é = e vs Eh or e (depend)
ai = ei or e vs Eh 
ê = ei vs ei
aî = ai vs ai

Sotte /ò/ vs saute /sout/, beaune /ou/
patte /a/ vs pâte /paut/
vs teinte /teint/

Île = ee-uhl
â = /au/
û = y-uh
ê = ei
ô = ou
oû = oo-uh
eû = uh-oo
aî = ai

jeune [ʒœn] ('young'), vs. jeûne [ʒøn] ('fast', verb),


French é is normal e. While è is back vowel.

Mettre /è/ vs maitre /ei/ (old spelling: maître)

Tete = e
Taite = è
tête = ei
taîte = ai

aage----âge
saoul----soûl
meur----mûr
dixme----dîme

Pre 1990 french spelling

Because of the reform, we only pronounce ai as /ei/ when there are homonyms. Other than that, ai without clear circumflex (aî) must be resorted to normal /è/

French heteronyms

Homophones

Coût
Cou, coud, coup 

Like many native French speakers, I pronounce the vowels of ceux, sœur and ce differently. /ø/ is more closed than /œ/ which is more closed than /ə/.

œ is more back like è and is usually longer

If not, just use long vowels or diphthong for eû.

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