cubiste
\ky.bist\
The verdict
“cubiste” is uncommon French (frequency #71,404 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,404
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au cubisme, qui appartient au cubisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cubiste · cubiste · French
cubiste · rank #71,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,404
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuadrado
Nearest frequency peer: cuadrado (-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 « cubiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crispée
crispée
28,600 corpus weight
- croisillons
croisillons
28,599 corpus weight
- cuadrado
cuadrado
28,598 corpus weight
- cubiste
cubiste
28,597 corpus weight
- cuenca
cuenca
28,596 corpus weight
- cultivaient
cultivaient
28,595 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cubiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cubiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.bist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cubiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cubiste is uncommon French at frequency #71,404 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ky.bist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au cubisme, qui appartient au cubisme.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cubiste in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cubiste, spelled C-U-B-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au cubisme, qui appartient au cubisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cubiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un tableau cubiste.
Mais Cézanne a déjà à cette date stimulé la peinture d’avant-garde avec l’apparition en 1907 de l’esthétique cubiste.
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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