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“Bedeviled” or “Bedevilled”

Bedeviled is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while bedevilled is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “bedeviled” and 3 prefer “bedevilled”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country bedeviled bedevilled Preference
United States 88 12 “bedeviled”
United Kingdom 65 35 “bedeviled”
India 25 75 “bedevilled”
Philippines 54 46 “bedeviled”
Canada 50 50 No clear preference
Australia 43 57 “bedevilled”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 80 20 “bedeviled”
New Zealand 43 57 “bedevilled”
Jamaica 0 0 Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago 0 0 Not enough data
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

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

“bedeviled”

  • The Bedeviled at HKcinemamagic.com
  • …on-off love affair which is bedeviled by the activities of Bob’s…
  • …the start, the company was bedeviled by poor finances.
  • …answered two questions that had bedeviled many similar series – those…
  • However, he was bedeviled by injuries.
  • …of authority that had so bedeviled American banking and would only…
  • Ill health bedeviled him through much of his…
  • The lumber industry was bedeviled by massive log jams in…
  • Long bedeviled by mental illness, Blakelock died…
  • …"the heightened partisanship that has bedeviled so much other work on…

“bedevilled”

  • Bedevilled (1955) - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
  • Bedevilled (1955) – Michel Trevelle (uncredited)
  • Bedevilled (1955) - Father Cunningham
  • The Bedevilled is a 1975 Hong Kong…
  • …other such problems that have bedevilled and lately publicly disgraced the
  • …solving a problem that had bedevilled him since 1938.
  • …United but continued to be bedevilled by injury and he agreed…
  • …(2009) in 19 days and Bedevilled (2010) in ten.
  • The Bedevilled (film)
  • …of rate-limiting steps that have bedevilled the biochemical conception of metabolism…

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