folksong

Questions about folksong

What does folksong mean?

folksong means "a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture".

How many syllables are in folksong?

folksong has 2 syllables and divides as folk-song under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for folksong?

Close synonyms include folk song, folk ballad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folksong a common word?

folksong is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.