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elector

elect·or/ɪˈlɛktɚ/noun

elector is spelled E-L-E-C-T-O-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables (elect·or). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, elector means “A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of elector is electors.

How many letters and syllables are in elector?

Letters7: E-L-E-C-T-O-R
Syllables2: elect·or
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is elector?

Elector appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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 elector?

  • UK /ɪˈlɛktə/
  • US /ɪˈlɛktɚ/
  • US /iˈlɛktɚ/

Elector has 2 syllables, split elect·or in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-elector.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with elector?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as elector from its last stressed vowel (/ɛktəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: electro.

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 elector

  • electors plural
  • electour

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does elector mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthUKA person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.

  3. 3

    A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.

  4. 4

    Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

noun

as Elector
  1. 1

    A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Elector in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchélecteur m votard, votant (person eligible to vote in an election), grand électeur (member of an electoral college; official…), prince-électeur (German prince entitled to elect the emperor of…)
GermanStimmbürger, Urnengänger, Wahlberechtigter, Wähler (person eligible to vote in an election), Elektor, Elektorin (member of an electoral college; official…)
Portugueseeleitor (person eligible to vote in an election), príncipe-eleitor, príncipe eleitor (German prince entitled to elect the emperor of…)
Spanishelector, votante (person eligible to vote in an election), compromisario (member of an electoral college; official…)

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 elector come from?

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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