folksong
noun
folksong is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of folk song” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-S-O-N-G, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folksong is folksongs.
What does folksong mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of folk song.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce folksong?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-folksong.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of folksong
- folksongs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folksong?
Folksong appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).