Words ending in -ei: der, die or das?
die
Words ending in -ei take the article “die”. Of 11 words in the Panderdiedas vocabulary 8 follow the rule – here they all are, exceptions included.
A verb or a person turns into a noun: der Bäcker → die Bäckerei, streiten → die Streiterei. Der Brei and das Blei are not formed that way – there the ei belongs to the stem, and the article does not follow.
73 % – of 11 matching words 8 follow the rule, 3 do not. holds often