Europop
noun
Europop is a noun meaning “A style of continental European pop music from the 1970s and 1980s characterized by catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-P-O-P, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Europop mean?
noun
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A style of continental European pop music from the 1970s and 1980s characterized by catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Europop?
Europop appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Europop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense European pop music:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | europop |
| German | Europop |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Europop come from?
From Euro- + pop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).