cubic

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cubic sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2cubit, pubic

• adjectiveinvolving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable
• adjectivehaving the shape of a cube; having three dimensions

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uw1 b ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• cherubic
• pubic

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• cubit
• pubic

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CU821
• Ends C
• 5 letters starting C

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.