électoral

\e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\

/\e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\/ adj

The verdict

“électoral” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,719
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux élections.

Corpus desk

Index FR-electoral · électoral · French

électoral · rank #5,719 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,719
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH Égypte

Nearest frequency peer: Égypte (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « électoral »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « électoral » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

électoral vs électorat
89% similar
électoral vs électorale
90% similar
électoral vs électoraux
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for électoral
PropertyValue
Headwordélectoral
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,719
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « électoral »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).électoralse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Égypte » (#5,718), « 1ère » (#5,720), « écoutez » (#5,717). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « électoral » est au #5,719. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around électoral (IPA \e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,719 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for électoral, with forms such as "electoral", "léectoral", and "éelctoral". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "électorat", "électorale", "électoraux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is électoral, spelled É-L-E-C-T-O-R-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux élections.
  2. 2
    Qui a rapport aux électeurs, composé d’électeurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how électoral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et il faut que notre expérience s'incline devant les idées préconçues et les principes d'un tas de crétins, envoyés à la Chambre parce qu'ils ont bien déliré pendant les trois semaines d'une période électorale dans les arrière-salles de café.
  2. Chez les écolos, l'erreur de distribution n'est pas un accident électoral, c'est une seconde nature. Cette maladresse congénitale finirait par les rendre sympathiques […].

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • electoral
  • léectoral
  • éelctoral
  • élcetoral
  • élecctoral
  • élecotral
  • électoarl
  • électorall
  • électorla
  • électorral
  • électroal
  • électtoral
  • életcoral
  • éllectoral

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of électoral - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

electoral1léectoral2éelctoral2élcetoral2élecctoral1élecotral2électoarl2électorall1
Edit distance from "électoral"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "électoral"?
"électoral" is spelled É-L-E-C-T-O-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\.
What does "électoral" mean?
As an adjective, "électoral" means: Relatif aux élections.
What words are commonly confused with "électoral"?
"électoral" is commonly confused with "électorat", "électorale", "électoraux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "électoral"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "électoral" is \e.lɛk.tɔ.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "électoral" come from?
"électoral" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "électoral", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list