mondegreen

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mondegreen

Summary

mondegreen ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,051 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mondegreen is credited with the discovery of Sylvia Wright[2].
  • mondegreen's subclass of is recorded as xenogram[3].
  • mondegreen's subclass of is recorded as misunderstanding[4].
  • mondegreen's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/050_d[5].
  • mondegreen's has cause is recorded as homophony[6].
  • mondegreen's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mondegreens[7].
  • mondegreen's partially coincident with is recorded as holorime[8].
  • mondegreen's has characteristic is recorded as homophony[9].
  • mondegreen's different from is recorded as eggcorn[10].
  • mondegreen's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as 空耳[11].
  • mondegreen's KBpedia ID is recorded as Mondegreens[12].
  • mondegreen's Know Your Meme slug is recorded as misheard-lyrics-phonetic-translations-buffalaxing[13].

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Works and Contributions

mondegreen is credited with the discovery of Sylvia Wright[2].

Why It Matters

mondegreen ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,051 views/month).[1] mondegreen has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] mondegreen is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . newyorker.com. Retrieved . newyorker.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). mondegreen. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/mondegreen
MLA “mondegreen.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/mondegreen.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_mondegreen_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{mondegreen}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/mondegreen}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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