Why is it die Sopranistin?

Sopranistin ends in -in, and most nouns ending in -in are feminine: in a German dictionary, 88% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -in
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Music: singer with soprano voice

[1] Musik: Sängerin mit Sopranstimme

Examples

[1] The soprano came too late to the trial

[1] Die Sopranistin kam zu spät zur Probe.

[1] "The saxophone sniffed the whining of the soprano"

[1] „Das Saxofon begleitete schnarrend das Jammern der Sopranistin.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Sopranistin die Sopranistinnen
Genitiv der Sopranistin der Sopranistinnen
Dativ der Sopranistin den Sopranistinnen
Akkusativ die Sopranistin die Sopranistinnen

Pronunciation

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