# folk vs fowl

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### folk
*noun · IPA /fəʊk/ · frequency rank #4,947*
A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

### fowl
*noun · IPA /faʊl/ · frequency rank #28,924*
A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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