centimètre cube

/\sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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centimètre cube is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure du système CGS ; volume défini par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un centimètre, soit 10⁻⁶ mètre cube ; le symbole est cm³. Pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\.

Key facts for centimètre cube
PropertyValue
Headwordcentimètre cube
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

centimètre cube is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for centimètre cube is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure du système CGS ; volume défini par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un centimètre, soit 10⁻⁶ mètre cube ; le symbole est cm³.".

No misspelling variants are generated for centimètre cube in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is centimètre cube, spelled C-E-N-T-I-M-È-T-R-E- -C-U-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de mesure du système CGS ; volume défini par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un centimètre, soit 10⁻⁶ mètre cube ; le symbole est cm³.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "centimètre cube"?
"centimètre cube" is spelled C-E-N-T-I-M-È-T-R-E- -C-U-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\.
What does "centimètre cube" mean?
As a noun, "centimètre cube" means: Unité de mesure du système CGS ; volume défini par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un centimètre, soit 10⁻⁶ mètre cube ; le symbole est cm³.
How do you pronounce "centimètre cube"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "centimètre cube" is \sɑ̃.ti.mɛtʁ kyb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.