Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chillwave

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: chill-wave
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As music created and shaped by the lens of blogs, music forums, and other forms of online comment, chillwave was subject to a backlash almost as soon as it had been labeled and defined."

Etymology

From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: chill

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does chillwave mean?: A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.
Where does chillwave come from?: From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

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