phyle vs folk

phyle and folk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phyle	Yes	No	No	No
folk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folk is a hypernym of phyle; that is, folk is a word with a broader meaning than phyle:

Other hypernyms of phyle include tribe.

phyle (noun)	folk (noun)
a tribe of ancient Athenians	the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
	people in general (often used in the plural)
	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
	people descended from a common ancestor