folklorist
/ˈfoʊklɔɹɪst/noun
folklorist is a noun meaning “A person who studies or collects folklore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-L-O-R-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folklorist is folklorists.
What does folklorist mean?
noun
- 1
A person who studies or collects folklore
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce folklorist?
- US /ˈfoʊklɔɹɪst/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-folklorist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of folklorist
- folklorists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folklorist?
Folklorist appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Folklorist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who studies or collects folklore:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | folkloriste |
| Spanish | folklorista, folclorista |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.