# elector

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪˈlɛktə/ · frequency rank #30,407

## Definitions
1. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
2. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
3. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
4. A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

## Etymology
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”)).

## Easily confused with
- **Electra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-electra)
- **elevator** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-elevator)
- **electron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-electron)
- **electors** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-electors)
- **executor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-executor)
- **electoral** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elector-vs-electoral)
- **elect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elect-vs-elector)
- **elected** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elected-vs-elector)
- **Eleanor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eleanor-vs-elector)
- **election** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/election-vs-elector)
- **effector** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/effector-vs-elector)

## Common misspellings (10)
`eelctor`, `elcetor`, `elecctor`, `elecotr`, `electorr`, `electro`, `electtor`, `eletcor`, `ellector`, `leector`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/elector