Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 7#French circumflex

Where can I find a complete list of the French words affected by the decision to make the circumflex (:fr:accent circonflexe) optional in their spelling? I did not find such a list when I searched for "circonflexe" at http://www.academie-francaise.fr.

• [http://www.france24.com/en/20160204-france-grammar-row-hat-circumflex-twitter-language Is French grammar ready to hang up the ‘hat’?]—France 24 (February 6, 2016)

—Wavelength (talk) 03:01, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

::::Changing the rules in order to have to taste (goûter) sounding like to drip (goutter) at last! "[http://www.doctissimo.fr/html/nutrition/poids/nu_7660_obesite_progression_france.htm So good an idea]", they are advertising it at Poulet Frit du Kentucky (in accordance with the [http://languedutravail.org/organismes-langue-francaise-qc law for the protection of the French language]). --Askedonty (talk) 13:14, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

:First, we must know what word have been affected, I will not repeat the rules, here is a good explanation. Then we found a good French wordlist dictionary ([https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/dictionnaires-français/ like this]) and just search for these letters and get the full list. I've already done this and got the list with around 400 words, though I did not check it manually for exceptions.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 11:41, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

:Yet, there is an [http://www.renouvo.org entire site] dedicated to listing all the words. We can just copy their list letter by letter (I did not find where I could download the list as one text file, anyway 26 letters is not a big deal...). Then we just search the copied list for "C2", that is the code for the rule about circumflex.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 12:14, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

::Apparently, if you search for a comma character in their "Recherche simple", they show you the full list. --My another account (talk) 14:34, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

:::Thanks! I've nearly started to make up the list manually, but you save me 10 minutes of annoying copy-paste. So we have 620 French words that have lost circumflex.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 14:54, 7 February 2016 (UTC)