electronic dance music
"electronic-dance-music" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“electronic dance music” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music whose creation involves electronic devices.
Corpus desk
Index EN-electronic-dance-music · electronic dance music · English
electronic dance music · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | electronic dance music |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “electronic dance music” in English
Rare enough to double-check
electronic dance music is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music whose creation involves electronic devices.".
Zero misspellings are on record for electronic dance music in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is electronic dance music, spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-N-I-C- -D-A-N-C-E- -M-U-S-I-C.
Definition
- 1A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music whose creation involves electronic devices.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how electronic dance music appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.