Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

popular music

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English

Syllables: pop-u-lar -mu-sic
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any genre of music that has wide appeal amongst the general public of a society, typically distributed widely by the music industry; typically as seen in contrast to classical music and folk music.

Uncountable

noun

Synonym of pop music.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Music.

Inflected Forms

popular musics (plural)

Synonyms

pop music popular music genre

Questions

What does popular music mean?: Any genre of music that has wide appeal amongst the general public of a society, typically distributed widely by the music industry; typically as seen in contrast to classical music and folk music.

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