folksinger
noun
folksinger is a noun meaning “A person who sings folk songs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-S-I-N-G-E-R, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folksinger is folksingers.
What does folksinger mean?
noun
- 1
A person who sings folk songs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of folksinger
- folksingers plural
- folk singer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folksinger?
Folksinger appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Folksinger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense singer of folk songs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Folksänger, Folksängerin, Volksmusiker, Volksmusikerin |
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.
Where does folksinger come from?
From folk + singer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).