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earworm

catchy piece of music that continually repeats through a person's mind after it is no longer playing
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earworm

Summary

earworm is a thought[1]. earworm draws 594 Wikipedia views per month (thought category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • earworm's instance of is recorded as thought[3].
  • earworm's instance of is recorded as verse[4].
  • earworm's instance of is recorded as repetitive DNA[5].
  • earworm's instance of is recorded as music terminology[6].
  • earworm's instance of is recorded as auditory hallucination[7].
  • earworm's subclass of is recorded as intrusive thought[8].
  • earworm's Commons category is recorded as Earworm[9].
  • earworm's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026l0d[10].
  • earworm's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1614799[11].
  • earworm's has characteristic is recorded as catchiness[12].
  • earworm's BBC Things ID is recorded as 21831659-3b26-42fe-bc9f-1db6fb599e53[13].
  • earworm's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/Earworm[14].

Why It Matters

earworm draws 594 Wikipedia views per month (thought category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] earworm has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] earworm is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . mp.weixin.qq.com. Retrieved . mp.weixin.qq.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). earworm. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/earworm
MLA “earworm.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/earworm.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_earworm_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{earworm}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/earworm}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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