cubed
adjective, verb
cubed is an adjective meaning “Raised to the third power” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-B-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cubed mean?
adjective
- 1
Raised to the third power.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of cube
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cubed?
Cubed has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cubed?
Cubed appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cubed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense raised to the third power:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | au cube |
| Portuguese | ao cubo |
| Spanish | al cubo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.