folks
\fɔlk\
The verdict
“folks” is uncommon French (frequency #69,846 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,846
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de folk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folks · folks · French
folks · rank #69,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,846
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foireuses
Nearest frequency peer: foireuses (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « folks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FLQ
FLQ
30,158 corpus weight
- fluid
fluid
30,157 corpus weight
- foireuses
foireuses
30,156 corpus weight
- folks
folks
30,155 corpus weight
- fonctionna
fonctionna
30,154 corpus weight
- fonçait
fonçait
30,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « folks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔlk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folks is uncommon French at frequency #69,846 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔlk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de folk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for folks, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is folks, spelled F-O-L-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de folk.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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