And ê, when pronounced (most of the cases) it's just a è.

ë, contrary as said in the article (full slop?) is the most complicated and with some exceptions. But there is so few words that use that letter that you just don't have to care.

Just pronounce ë as è when its in (inside) a word and not pronounced at all when it's at the end. The only exception I can think of is canoë (pronounced conoé), but everybody will understand if you say cano.

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huhtenberg 2 days ago | parent [-]

> ë

What else is there with ë except for Noël and Israël ?

	▲	astrobe_ 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ambiguë (ambiguous) and aiguë (acute) [1], but these are "old" spellings. For instance, this word "ambiguë" was changed in the 1990 spelling reform to "ambigüe" [2] probably to emphasis the fact that the U is not mute (because for most -gue words it is, like for "fatigue" in french and english). Like with ï and ü, the tréma mark is precisely the mark of an exception. [1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambigu%C3%AB , https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/aigu%C3%AB [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambig%C3%BCe
	▲	artwr 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A9ma_en_fran%C3%A7ais Some adjectives: aiguë, exiguë... (though a bunch are more commonly written with it on the ü instead) Some proper names: Gaël, Gwenaël, Ismaël