Rule for masculine · der
-ling → der · rare, just one example (Frühling)
The suffix -ling is associated with masculine gender in German, and in our set of 2,400 words it appears just once: Frühling (spring), which is always der Frühling. It's a rare rule - you won't run into it often - but it's worth remembering for this one everyday word, used whenever you talk about the seasons. There are no exceptions in our data, simply because we only have this single example to check against.