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Cliché is spelled with é, rather than è, which makes the word sound more like cleesh, not cleeshay.

Actually, the French spelling and pronunciation is cliché [kliché] (accent aigu, abrupt stop), but the English pronunciation is better achieved with è [klishay] (accent grave, extended).

Note that there are no words in French that end with è.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koin%C3%A8

This is the first rule of French: there is at least one exception to every rule.

And this probably includes the first rule itself.

#til

I'd say it's not really a French word but a transliteration of the Ancient Greek word ἡ κοινὴ

This is when I feel the need to interject and recommend the "macron" (nothing to do with the president of the same name!) [1]

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritique)

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