cubital
\ky.bi.tal\
The verdict
“cubital” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne le cubitus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cubital · cubital · French
cubital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cubital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.bi.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cubital » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cubital is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ky.bi.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cubital, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cubital, spelled C-U-B-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne le cubitus.
- 2Du côté de la main ou de l’avant-bras proche du cubitus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cubital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muscle cubital.
Nerf cubital.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.