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Plural of folk

regular plural

The plural of folk is folks.

Forms of folk

Singularfolk /fəʊk/
Pluralfolks /fəʊks/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Folks in a sentence

  • I need to call my folks back home.
  • We got the folks at the Detroit plant to come out too.From the entry come out
  • Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.From the entry walk of life
  • Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program.From the entry get with the program
  • Imagine being so insecure that you make it against the law for folks to dislike you.From the entry insecure

Meaning of folk

  1. noun A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  2. noun People, persons.
  3. noun One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.

Full definition of folk

Questions about the plural of folk

What is the plural of folk?
The plural of folk is folks.
Is folk countable?
Folk is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: folk (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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