elected
elect·ed/ɪˈlɛktɪd/noun, verb
elected is spelled E-L-E-C-T-E-D, 2 syllables: elect·ed. The wrong spelling people search most is ellected: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Elected is a noun meaning “One who is elected”. The plural of elected is electeds.
How many letters and syllables are in elected?
| Letters | 7: E-L-E-C-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: elect·ed |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ellected, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell elected?
Elected is spelled E-L-E-C-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for elected in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is elected?
Elected appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce elected?
- /ɪˈlɛktɪd/
Elected has 2 syllables, split elect·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-elected.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with elected
Also written: triple-E.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of elected
- electeds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does elected mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who is elected.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of elect
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).