folkie
noun, adjective
folkie is a noun meaning “A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-I-E, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folkie is folkies.
What does folkie mean?
noun
- 1
A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music.
adjective
- 1
of, or relating to folk music
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of folkie
- folkies plural
- folkier comparative
- folkiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folkie?
Folkie appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 folkie come from?
From folk + -ie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).