“Colonizers” or “Colonisers”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

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

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	colonizers	colonisers	Preference
United States	98	2	“colonizers”
United Kingdom	39	61	“colonisers”
India	59	41	“colonizers”
Philippines	100	0	“colonizers”
Canada	100	0	“colonizers”
Australia	25	75	“colonisers”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	100	0	“colonizers”
New Zealand	0	100	“colonisers”
Jamaica	75	25	“colonizers”
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.

“colonizers”

…of Chinese traders and Spanish colonizers describe Datus or Paramount Datus…
Colonizers from the south arrived quickly,…
…'white town' (where the British colonizers lived) and 'black town' (where…
30% are colonizers from the other parts of…
…of Catalonia denounce all Catalan-speaking colonizers who participated in Spanish abuses…
The colonizers of the lands conquered to…
…area, that the first Portuguese colonizers arrived.
…governed Britain (and other European colonizers) with their territories was that…
The colonizers didn't see fit to have…
…Moluccan peoples siding with their colonizers.

“colonisers”

…clothing worn by their German colonisers.
…in 1881 by the French colonisers in order to facilitate commerce.
…how the work signified "how colonisers always get things wrong; how…
…the languages of indigenous people, colonisers, slaves and indentured labourers.
…the coloniser's own sense of displacement.
…took the side of the colonisers, while others sided with the
The British colonisers carried out seven censuses in…
Land and colonisers
…route taken by the first colonisers.
…a kingdom was very recent, colonisers normally referred to their language…

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