Zydeco

Definition: Zydeco

Zydeco

Noun

1. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.

Modern Usage: Zydeco

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Kingdom of Zydeco (1994)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Zydeco

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Zydeco is a form of folk music, originated in the beginning of the 20th century among the French-speaking Cajuns of Louisiana. It is dominated by the accordion and also includes horns and the electric bass guitar. The music arose as a synthesis of more traditional Cajun music with R&B and blues. Amede Ardoin made the first recordings of zydeco in 1928, and the music was finally brought to the fringes of the American mainstream in the mid-1950s, with the popularity of Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis. Rockin' Sidney's surprise hit "My Toot Toot" launched a revival of zydeco in the mid-1980s, carried further by the international fame of Buckwheat Zydeco.

The word "zydeco" comes from the bastardization of a song, "L'Haricots Sont Pas Sals". Haricot being a French word for Green beans. The title means "The snap beans aren't salty", a reference to the singer being too poor to afford salt pork to season the beans.

See also: Music of Louisiana

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zydeco."

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Commercial Usage: Zydeco

Domain	Title
Books	New Orleans Funk Guitar: The Guitar Styles of New Orleans Funk, Cajun and Zydeco Greats with CD (Audio) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Zydeco Gumbo (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Buckwheat Zydeco Story: A 20 Year Party (reference) Zydeco Dependents (reference) Menagerie: The Essential Zydeco Collection (reference) Offshore Blues and Zydeco (reference) Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Zydeco

"Zydeco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Zydeco" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Zydeco

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
zydeco	328	cajun zydeco dance	3
buckwheat zydeco	85	dagger kayak zydeco	3
zydeco music	55	go go zydeco	3
birmingham zydeco	11	music online zydeco	3
zydeco festival	9	jjs paydirt zydeco	3
cajun and zydeco	7	history of zydeco	3
dagger zydeco	7	baltimore zydeco	3
accordion zydeco	6	gold zydeco	3
cajun music and zydeco	5	dopsie dwayne hellraisers zydeco	2
zydeco dance	5	houston zydeco	2
zydeco dancing	4	restaurant zydeco	2
nathan the zydeco cha chas	4	kayak zydeco	2
zydeco band	4	beaumont in texas zydeco	2
zydeco flame	4	hellraisers zydeco	2
radio zydeco	4	event zydeco	2
board message zydeco	4	accordion learn play zydeco	2
zydeco artist	3	cycle zydeco	2
midi zydeco	3	cascade zydeco	2
cha chas zydeco	3	robics.net zydeco	2
cruise zydeco	3	lyrics music zydeco	2
		robics.com zydeco	2
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Derivations: Zydeco

Derivations
	Words beginning with "zydeco": zydecos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Zydeco"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "zydeco" (pronounced zī'de"kō', zi"dukō' , or zī"dukō')
3	-u k ō'	calico, portico.
3	-u k ō'	calico, portico.
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Anagrams: Zydeco

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-y-z"
	-1 letter: coyed, cozey, decoy.
	-2 letters: code, coed, cozy, deco, doze, dozy, oyez.
	-3 letters: cod, coy, coz, dey, doc, doe, dye, ode, yod, zed.
	-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, oy, ye, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-y-z"
	+1 letter: zydecos.
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