folk devil
"folk-devil" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“folk devil” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folk devil |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “folk devil” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
folk devil is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for folk devil, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is folk devil, spelled F-O-L-K- -D-E-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “folk devil”
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- The one correct English spelling is F-O-L-K- -D-E-V-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.