Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

folksonomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
folk-son-o-my
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A user-generated taxonomy.

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What does folksonomy mean?
The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Where does folksonomy come from?
Blend of folk + taxonomy.

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