Almost all of these contrasts occur in unstressed syllables, so they are often confused even by native speakers. This applies particularly to the 11 compounds of -men v. -man words where the contrast is no more than optional. The list includes six pairs which are -ment homographs (verb v. noun).
The mean density is 0.2%. The pairs make 22 semantic contrasts, giving a loading of 61%.
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