folky
adjective
folky is an adjective meaning “Having the character of folk music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does folky mean?
adjective
- 1
informalHaving the character of folk music
The band opened with a folky little number.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce folky?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-folky.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of folky
- folkier comparative
- folkiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folky?
Folky 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).
Where does folky come from?
From folk + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).