candidature

Other forms of candidature

plural

candidatures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about candidature

What does candidature mean?

candidature means "the campaign of a candidate to be elected".

How many syllables are in candidature?

candidature has 4 syllables: can-di-da-ture. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for candidature?

Close synonyms include campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candidature a common word?

candidature is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.