Grove Spelling Dictionary
the ending

clementinee: is the ee sound spelled wrong or just spelled twice?

graft: letter 11
Writtenclementine

KLEM-uhn-teen

Spelled twice. The ee at the end is a fair guess at what you hear, because English does normally write that sound with ee or ea. What it misses is that ine already says een in a large group of borrowed words: machine, marine, routine, tangerine. Every one of them is French, and clementine is French too.

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