This makes me sad. I'm currently learning French and with all the problems around spelling and homonyms with French in general, the circumflex words are the onl

This makes me sad. I'm currently learning French and with all the problems around spelling and homonyms with French in general, the circumflex words are the only ones I can reliably remember/learn! Because I'm familiar with Spanish, the circumflex helps to guess the meaning of new words because the circumflex is usually present to indicate a missing "s". For example, feste -> fête, hostel -> hôtel, and isle -> île.