folclore
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,236
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
folclore is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de las actividades, costumbres y creencias tradicionales de un pueblo o etnia. Pronounced [folˈkloɾe]. Often confused with folklore and folclor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folclore |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [folˈkloɾe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for folclore is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [folˈkloɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,236 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for folclore, with forms such as "ffolclore", "floclore", and "focllore". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "folklore", "folclor", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is folclore, spelled F-O-L-C-L-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de las actividades, costumbres y creencias tradicionales de un pueblo o etnia.
- 2Estudio de las tradiciones de los pueblos o etnias.
- 3Música popular que se transmite de generación en generación por vía oral (y hoy en día también de manera académica) como una parte más de los valores y de la cultura de un pueblo.
- 4Por extensión, conjunto de géneros musicales contemporáneos revitalizados que toman los rasgos de la música folclórica, sobre todo cuando se refiere a la música rural.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffolclore,floclore,focllore,folcclore,folcllore,folcloer,folclorre,folclroe,folcolre,follclore,follcore,oflclore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for folclore
Misspelling Variants of "folclore"
Frequency rank: #27,236 in Spanish
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