The 250 Most Common Italian Nouns

Ranked by real-world frequency, with gender and an example sentence. Study all of them free with spaced repetition.

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The 250 Most Common Italian Nouns: the list

Gender: m. masculine · f. feminine · n. neuter · c. common

Tips for learning Italian nouns

• Most nouns ending in -o, such as stato, tempo, lavoro, momento, and tipo, are masculine — a useful default when you're unsure of gender.
• Most nouns ending in -a, such as casa, vita, and volta, are feminine, and the plural swaps -a for -e without changing gender: cosa becomes cose.
• Nouns ending in -e can be either gender, so learn each one individually — parte is feminine while padre is masculine, despite the shared ending.
• Some entries here are plural forms worth learning as they stand: anni ('years') is a plural, and soldi ('money') is normally used in the plural in everyday Italian.
• Italian sometimes splits one English word across two nouns: tempo covers 'time' as duration, while volta covers 'time' in the sense of an occasion or turn — reread the example sentences until the difference feels natural.
• When you drill these words, say or type the definite article together with the noun rather than the noun on its own, so gender becomes automatic instead of a separate fact to recall.