cub
[kʌb]
The verdict
“cub” is uncommon German (frequency #83,823 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,823
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Junges (im Deutschen hat der Begriff 'Junges' einen größeren Bedeutungsumfang, beispielsweise gilt er auch für Jungvögel, Kälber)
Corpus desk
Index DE-cub · cub · German
cub · rank #83,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,823
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH crocodile
Nearest frequency peer: crocodile (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cub“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Croatia
Croatia
16,180 corpus weight
- crocodile
crocodile
16,179 corpus weight
- cub
cub
16,178 corpus weight
- curved
curved
16,177 corpus weight
- Cyprian
Cyprian
16,176 corpus weight
- dafuq
dafuq
16,175 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cub“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cub |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʌb] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cub“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cub is uncommon German at frequency #83,823 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kʌb]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cub in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is cub, spelled C-U-B.
Definition
- 1Junges (im Deutschen hat der Begriff 'Junges' einen größeren Bedeutungsumfang, beispielsweise gilt er auch für Jungvögel, Kälber)
- 2Neuling, Anfänger
- 3Rüpel, Rabauke, Flegel
- 4Wölfling
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When the team recaptured the bear, she had lost almost a quarter of her body weight and her year-old cub, which had been travelling alongside her, had disappeared.
Seeing a black bear in Labrador isn't an unusual sighting, but a mama bear and four young cubs is pretty rare.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).