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folker

noun

folker is a noun meaning “A performer of folk music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folker is folkers.

What does folker mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A performer of folk music.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce folker?

    Folker has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of folker

    • folkers plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is folker?

    Folker appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does folker come from?

    From folk + -er.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).