electronic dance music

noun

"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

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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.

Key facts for electronic dance music
PropertyValue
Headwordelectronic dance music
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “electronic dance music” in English

electronic dance musicfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music whose creation involves electronic devices.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how electronic dance music appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "electronic dance music"?
"electronic dance music" is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-N-I-C- -D-A-N-C-E- -M-U-S-I-C.
What does "electronic dance music" mean?
As a noun, "electronic dance music" means: A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music whose creation involves electronic devices.
What language does "electronic dance music" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list