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vote

/voʊt/noun, verb

vote is spelled V-O-T-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 129 times per million words in written English, the 810th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vote means “A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vote is votes.

How many letters and syllables are in vote?

Letters4: V-O-T-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing129 times per million words; the 810th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 vote?

Vote appears 129 times per million words in written English, the 810th 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 vote?

  • UK /vəʊt/
  • US /voʊt/
  • Australia /vəʉt/

Vote has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vote.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with vote?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: veto.

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 vote

  • votes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • voting participle, present
  • voted participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does vote mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.

    The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.

  2. 2

    An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.

    The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.

  3. 3

    obsoleteAn ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.

    Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: [

  4. 4

    obsoleteA formalized petition or request.

  5. 5

    obsoleteAny judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.

  6. 6

    Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published.

    dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)

verb

  1. 1

    To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.

    Q: Did you vote last month? A: Yes. I voted for John Smith, and it's a shame that he lost; you can't blame me for the mess we're in now.

  2. 2

    To choose or grant (some objective) by means of a vote, or by general consent.

    The directors voted an increase in R&D spending.

  3. 3

    To exercise one's voting right upon (a ballot or a share of stock).

    vote your ballot

noun

as Vote
  1. 1

    A person from Votia or of Votic descent.

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

Vote in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvoix, vote (formalised choice), votation (instance of voting), voter (assert a formalised choice)
GermanStimme, Votum (formalised choice), Abstimmung, Wählen (instance of voting), wählen, stimmen (assert a formalised choice)
Portuguesevoto (formalised choice), votação (instance of voting), votar (assert a formalised choice)
Spanishvotación, plebiscito (formalised choice), voto (instance of voting), votar (assert a formalised choice)

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 vote come from?

From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“to vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”). Doublet of vow.

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

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