décimètre cube
\de.si.mɛtʁ kyb\
The verdict
“décimètre cube” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de mesure représentant le volume occupé par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un décimètre, valant 10⁻³ mètre cube (soit 1 litre) et dont le symbole est dm³.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décimètre cube |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.si.mɛtʁ kyb\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décimètre cube” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décimètre cube is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.si.mɛtʁ kyb\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure représentant le volume occupé par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un décimètre, valant 10⁻³ mètre cube (soit 1 litre) et dont le symbole est dm³.".
Zero misspellings are on record for décimètre cube in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 décimètre cube, spelled D-É-C-I-M-È-T-R-E- -C-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure représentant le volume occupé par un cube dont les arêtes ont une longueur d’un décimètre, valant 10⁻³ mètre cube (soit 1 litre) et dont le symbole est dm³.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “décimètre cube”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-I-M-È-T-R-E- -C-U-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.si.mɛtʁ kyb\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.