election

Other forms of election

plural

elections·

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 election

What does election mean?

election means "a vote to select the winner of a position or political office". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in election?

election has 3 syllables: e-lec-tion. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /ɪˈlɛkʃən/.

Is election a common word?

election is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with election?

5 words rhyme with election. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.