folklife
"folklife" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“folklife” is uncommon English (frequency #92,617 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,617
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally.
Corpus desk
Index EN-folklife · folklife · English
folklife · rank #92,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,617
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flippy
Nearest frequency peer: flippy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “folklife”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flavonoid
flavonoid
7,388 corpus weight
- flinty
flinty
7,386 corpus weight
- flippy
flippy
7,385 corpus weight
- folklife
folklife
7,384 corpus weight
- forensically
forensically
7,383 corpus weight
- fovea
fovea
7,382 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “folklife” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folklife |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “folklife” in English
Rare enough to double-check
folklife is uncommon English at frequency #92,617 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for folklife, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From folk + life. The correct English form is folklife, spelled F-O-L-K-L-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally.
Etymology
From folk + life.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).