élire
French, verb/e.liʁ/
élire is spelled É-L-I-R-E (5 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,293rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élire is a French verb meaning “to elect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Choisir entre plusieurs personnes ou plusieurs choses”.
What does élire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to elect
- 2
to take up (residence)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Choisir entre plusieurs personnes ou plusieurs choses. 2. Nommer à une dignité, à une fonction, à une place par la voie des suffrages. 3. Prédestiner à la vie éternelle. 4. Assigner un lieu où tous les actes de justice puissent être signifiés.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of élire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- élisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- élu participle past
- élis first-person indicative present
- élit indicative present singular
- élisons first-person indicative plural
- élisez indicative plural present
- élisent indicative plural present
- élisais first-person imperfect indicative
- élisait imperfect indicative singular
- élisions first-person imperfect indicative
- élisiez imperfect indicative plural
- élisaient imperfect indicative plural
- élus first-person historic indicative
- élut historic indicative past
- élûmes first-person historic indicative
- élûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élire?
- /e.liʁ/
- \e.liʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to élire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élire in French?
élire appears 8.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).