cubisme
\ky.bism\
The verdict
“cubisme” is uncommon French (frequency #53,244 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,244
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement artistique qui utilise les formes géométriques de base (cube, prisme, cylindre, sphère, cône, etc.) comme moyen d'expression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cubisme · cubisme · French
cubisme · rank #53,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,244
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crépusculaire
Nearest frequency peer: crépusculaire (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cubisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crâniens
crâniens
46,760 corpus weight
- crédités
crédités
46,759 corpus weight
- crépusculai…
crépusculaire
46,758 corpus weight
- cubisme
cubisme
46,757 corpus weight
- cueillis
cueillis
46,756 corpus weight
- culturales
culturales
46,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cubisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cubisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.bism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cubisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cubisme is uncommon French at frequency #53,244 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.bism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mouvement artistique qui utilise les formes géométriques de base (cube, prisme, cylindre, sphère, cône, etc.) comme moyen d'expression.".
cubisme has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cubisme, spelled C-U-B-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement artistique qui utilise les formes géométriques de base (cube, prisme, cylindre, sphère, cône, etc.) comme moyen d'expression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cubisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Objets et corps sont pétrifiés, « cubes », formes fuselées ou ovoïdes, denses et dures. Cette définition du cubisme par l’angle droit, la sphère ou toute autre géométrie dans l’espace, que Braque et Picasso inventent en 1908 et explorent jusqu’à l’hiver 1909-1910, est celle qui est reprise et systématisée par ceux qui se réclament du cubisme à partir de…
Mais le cubisme n’était pas la modernité même; il était un prélude à l’abstraction, à la non-figuration.
This word in other languages
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.
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