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All of those cranks have unique sculpting where the arms meet the big chainring. Some combinations will physically fit (but look wrong), but Shimano doesn’t endorse anything but an exact match.
Have you actually found original 5800 or 6800 chainrings for reasonable money? I couldn’t last time I looked. Your best bet might be flat rings from Ali Express etc.
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Me again with the 4700 crank questions - just received the crank and think the chainring teeth are shot (shame on me for not realising earlier). No worry I thinks, just find a replacement set given the number of 5800 and 6800 spares there must be. Then I notice that Shimano says 5800 rings aren't compatible with the 4700 cranks, even though BCD and spider design seems to be identical and every other bit seems to be interchangeable; what gives?