la nuit

feminine

An exception to the rule

Nouns ending in -it are masculine in 95.6% of the 137 such nouns in our corpus — but nuit is feminine, so it is one of the exceptions worth remembering.

Others ending -it: abstrait, acabit, accessit, aconit, acquit, affidavit, akvavit, anti-bruit

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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