elector

Other forms of elector

plural

electors·

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 elector

What does elector mean?

elector means "a citizen who has a legal right to vote". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elector?

elector has 3 syllables: e-lec-tor. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /ɪˈlɛktɚ/.

What is another word for elector?

Close synonyms include voter. 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 elector a common word?

elector 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.

What rhymes with elector?

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