“Analyze” or “Analyse”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “analyze” and 7 prefer “analyse”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	analyze	analyse	Preference
United States	87	13	“analyze”
United Kingdom	12	88	“analyse”
India	34	66	“analyse”
Philippines	96	4	“analyze”
Canada	26	74	“analyse”
Australia	14	86	“analyse”
Liberia	100	0	“analyze”
Ireland	25	75	“analyse”
New Zealand	23	77	“analyse”
Jamaica	64	36	“analyze”
Trinidad & Tobago	49	51	“analyse”
Guyana	57	43	“analyze”

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“analyze”

…notion of collective representations to analyze social forms of religious, artistic,…
Drama-theorists build and analyze models (called card tables or…
…Me Myself & I (1992), Analyze This (1999), Surviving Christmas (2004),…
…improve their customer experience and analyze performance through data analytics.
…a teacher lets the student analyze their past test results and…
Romo possesses the ability to analyze and correct his own mistakes,…
Brown to analyze the retinal changes as a…
…enables scientists and engineers to analyze and interpret data while the…
Such methods analyze a set of alternatives described…
…bins can be used to analyze self-similar processes.

“analyse”

…should review salary surveys that analyse non-financial benefits.
…as central repository and to analyse the information provided by the
…scientific purposes that can generate, analyse, release and reuse medical forms.
They have been used to analyse the geographical distribution of vegetation:…
…Kurt: Jacobi und Mendelssohn: Eine Analyse des Spinozastreits.
…the analyst will tend to analyse the underlying senses of the…
…compression and information retrieval: to analyse spells, to see if there…
…through in North America to analyse leisure.
…series of white papers, which analyse technology trends and predict their…
One more prefers to analyse semiotics of culture discourse as…

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