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volk

noun

volk is a noun meaning “The Afrikaner people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-K and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does volk mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The Afrikaner people.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce volk?

    Volk has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is volk?

    Volk appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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).

    Words people confuse with volk

    Also written: folk.

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Where does volk come from?

    Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).