Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

microgenre

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-cro-genre
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hyper-specific or niche genre.

Example Sentences

"This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes."

Etymology

From micro- + genre.

Inflected Forms

microgenres (plural)

Questions

What does microgenre mean?: A hyper-specific or niche genre.
Where does microgenre come from?: From micro- + genre.

How to pronounce microgenre

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