cube
French, noun
cube is spelled C-U-B-E (4 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cube is a French masculine noun meaning “cube (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cuber. With an accent, cubé is a different word: “past participle of cuber”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Polyèdre limité par six carrés”.
What does cube mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecube (all senses)
- 2
masculinethird-grader
adjective
- 1
cubic
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of cuber
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Polyèdre limité par six carrés. 2. Objet de forme parallélépipédique proche du cube. 3. Puissance troisième représentée par le symbole ³. 4. Élève qui cube ou redouble sa deuxième année de classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles.
adjective: 1. Cubique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cube
- cubes plural
- cubée feminine
- cubés masculine plural
- cubées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cube
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cube in French?
cube appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).