cube

\kyb\

/\kyb\/ noun

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The verdict

“cube” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,979
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polyèdre limité par six carrés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cube · cube · French

cube · rank #9,979 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,979
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croirait

Nearest frequency peer: croirait (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cube »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cube » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cube vs cul
50% similar
cube vs cup
50% similar
cube vs cut
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cube
PropertyValue
Headwordcube
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kyb\
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,979
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cube »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cubese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « croirait » (#9,978), « culotte » (#9,980), « correcte » (#9,977). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cube » est au #9,979. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around cube (IPA \kyb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,979 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cube, with forms such as "cbue", "ccube", and "cubbe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cul", "cup", "cut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cube, spelled C-U-B-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Polyèdre limité par six carrés.
  2. 2
    Objet de forme parallélépipédique proche du cube.
  3. 3
    Puissance troisième représentée par le symbole ³.
  4. 4
    Élève qui cube ou redouble sa deuxième année de classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles.
  5. 5
    Discipline aérienne du cirque.
  6. 6
    Abacules qui composent les mosaïques.
  7. 7
    Volume de bois obtenu par cubage.
  8. 8
    Personne à la silhouette massive.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cube appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sa spécialité consistait à scier les dés et à les piper. Il m’expliqua l’opération, car achetant lui-même l’ivoire, il le débitait en petits cubes dont il forait certains côtés pour les bourrer de plomb.
  2. Quand il est régulier (ses faces et les angles qui les séparent sont alors identiques), on parle de solide platonicien. Il existe cinq solides platoniciens distincts, le tétraèdre, le cube, l’octaèdre, le dodécaèdre et l’icosaèdre qui comportent respectivement 4, 6, 8, 12 et 20 côtés.

This word in other languages

cube(English)cubo(Español)Würfel(Deutsch)cubo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cbue
  • ccube
  • cubbe
  • cueb
  • ucbe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cube - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cbue2ccube1cubbe1cueb2ucbe2
Edit distance from "cube"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cube"?
"cube" is spelled C-U-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyb\.
What does "cube" mean?
As a noun, "cube" means: Polyèdre limité par six carrés.
What words are commonly confused with "cube"?
"cube" is commonly confused with "cul", "cup", "cut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cube"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cube" is \kyb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cube" come from?
"cube" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cube", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fuit#10,007émet#9,947Land#10,023tuée#9,933

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

make5 variantsmuet5 variantssire5 variantspois5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list