folks
[fəʊks]
The verdict
“folks” is uncommon German (frequency #82,760 among 45,736 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,760
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs folk
Corpus desk
Index DE-folks · folks · German
folks · rank #82,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,760
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH folgerte
Nearest frequency peer: folgerte (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “folks”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fischte
fischte
17,246 corpus weight
- fleischige
fleischige
17,245 corpus weight
- Fliegern
Fliegern
17,244 corpus weight
- folgerte
folgerte
17,242 corpus weight
- folks
folks
17,241 corpus weight
- freisetzt
freisetzt
17,237 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “folks” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fəʊks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “folks” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
folks is uncommon German at frequency #82,760 among 45,736 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fəʊks]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs folk".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for folks, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is folks, spelled F-O-L-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs folk
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.