“Colonizer” or “Coloniser”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 6 prefer “colonizer” and 3 prefer “coloniser”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	colonizer	coloniser	Preference
United States	97	3	“colonizer”
United Kingdom	43	57	“coloniser”
India	69	31	“colonizer”
Philippines	100	0	“colonizer”
Canada	74	26	“colonizer”
Australia	37	63	“coloniser”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	33	67	“coloniser”
Jamaica	76	24	“colonizer”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“colonizer”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“colonizer”

…Legazpi, the Spanish explorer and colonizer.
…salt manufacturer and an early colonizer Asa Danforth Jr.. Danforth was…
…was a Swiss immigrant, trader, colonizer and settler, founder and manager…
…colonized person's response to the colonizer.
…a French trader, settler and colonizer of the Patagonia Argentina.
Colonizer
…Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (b.
This species is an early colonizer of appropriate habitat types in…
…pay taxes to the French colonizer, and insulting Wali Deir al-Zour…
The first non-Indigenous colonizer is considered to have been…

“coloniser”

The third coloniser is the cattle egret which…
…Thomas Stamford Raffles, the British coloniser of Singapore.
…in 1624 by a leading coloniser
…– Eiríkr Thorvaldsson, the Viking coloniser of Greenland, known also as…
…and Dutch as the previous coloniser.
It is a coloniser of unstable sand dunes, along…
…1808), New Zealand whaler and coloniser
Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self.
It is a pioneer coloniser of recently deglaciated areas.
…possibly successfully introduced (or natural coloniser) to England.

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