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Of course, when you see that list, you can see that the word grapheme literally – LITERALLY literally – already means 'marker.'
Even before my days with word sums and matrices, it used to frustrate me to find that published phonics word lists always – not frequently, but always – mixed up various patterns featuring two of the same consonant in a row.
Just like with the consonant-<le> pattern, there are common overarching patterns in which words take double consonants and which ones have single medial consonants.
"An orthography will use whatever tools it has at its disposal to represent its language."