cubeb

Other forms of cubeb

plural

cubebs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cubeb

What does cubeb mean?

cubeb means "spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cubeb?

cubeb has 2 syllables and divides as cu-beb under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cubeb?

Close synonyms include cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb cigarette. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cubeb a common word?

cubeb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.