election
elec·tion/ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/noun
election is spelled E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N, 2 syllables: elec·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is electon: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 222 of all searches for the word. Election is a noun meaning “A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote”. The plural of election is elections.
How many letters and syllables are in election?
| Letters | 8: E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: elec·tion |
| In writing | 120 times per million words; the 873rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, electon, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell election?
Election is spelled E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 150 of the searches for election 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 election?
Election appears 120 times per million words in written English, the 873rd 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 election?
- US /ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/
- /əˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/
Election has 2 syllables, split elec·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-election.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with election?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as election from its last stressed vowel (/ɛkʃn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of election
- elections plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does election mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
- 2
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- 3
An option that is selected.
W-4 election
- 4
archaicAny conscious choice.
- 5
In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- 6
obsoleteThose who are elected.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate election?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of election: elec, elex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Election in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process of choosing a new leader or representatives by popular vote:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does election come from?
From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“to pluck out, to choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion. Displaced native Old English cyre (“choice, free will, election”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).