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How to spell cube

What it means: A solid shape with six equal square sides.

In a sentence: The magician pulled a colorful cube from his hat. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cude or cub.

Same family: cubes, cubic, cubed, cubing. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Cube comes from the Latin word "cubus," which itself came from Greek "kybos," meaning a die or a six-sided gaming piece. So the word has been connected to both math and games for thousands of years.

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