enfant
masculine — starts with a vowel or h, so the article elides to l’enfant and hides the gender
Nouns ending in -ant are masculine in 99% of the 383 such nouns in our corpus, and enfant is one of them.
Others ending -ant: abattant, aboutissant, absorbant, acceptant, adjudant, adjuvant, adoptant, adoucissant
Genders come from a corpus extraction (Lexique383), and the percentages above are measured against that corpus rather than quoted. Nouns the corpus leaves genuinely ambiguous — livre is both le livre (book) and la livre (pound) — have no page here at all, because showing one of two right answers as if it were the only one is worse than showing nothing.
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