cube
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cube sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 8cubs, cure
What it means
- nouna hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
- nouna three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- nounthe product of three equal terms
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uw1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- tube
- boob
- jujube
- lube
- rube
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.