folx
/foʊks/noun
folx is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of folks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-X, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does folx mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of folks.
- 2
Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English.
If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.
- 3
Folks; people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce folx?
- UK /fəʊks/
- US /foʊks/
- US /foʊlks/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-folx.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is folx?
Folx appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 folx come from?
Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).