On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:54 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

I can think of at least one English suffix pair that clash: -ify, -fy.
How about other languages? How comfortable are you to say that nobody
doing text processing in German or Hindi will need to deal with clashing
affixes?

Here are the 30 most common suffixes in a large list of Dutch words. For similar answers for other languages, see https://gist.github.com/DavidMertz/1a4aac0e889097d7bf80d8d41a3a644d. Note that there is absolutely nothing morphological here, simply dumb string literals:

% head -30 suffix-frequency-nl.txt

('en', 55338)

('er', 14387)

('de', 12541)

('den', 11427)

('ten', 9402)

('te', 8263)

('ng', 7502)

('es', 7398)

('st', 7102)

('ing', 6949)

('gen', 6836)

('rs', 6592)

('ers', 5581)

('ren', 4842)

('el', 4602)

('ngen', 4451)

('rde', 4255)

('ken', 4203)

('re', 3870)

('je', 3868)

('len', 3784)

('ste', 3680)

('ie', 3658)

('nd', 3635)

('erde', 3620)

('rden', 3593)

('jes', 3307)

('eren', 3193)

('id', 3123)

('rd', 3083)

Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food
from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the
uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting
advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is
to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.