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“Criticizes” or “Criticises”

Criticizes is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while criticises 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 “criticizes” and 4 prefer “criticises”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country criticizes criticises Preference
United States 94 6 “criticizes”
United Kingdom 29 71 “criticises”
India 63 37 “criticizes”
Philippines 95 5 “criticizes”
Canada 88 12 “criticizes”
Australia 39 61 “criticises”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 32 68 “criticises”
New Zealand 32 68 “criticises”
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.

“criticizes”

  • Myers criticizes McCarthy for filling his sentences…
  • Books Not Bars criticizes the DJJ not only as…
  • It criticizes wage labour relationships within the
  • The song criticizes the homes featured in celebrity…
  • It criticizes democracy, citing Adolf Hitler as…
  • Miguel Lopez of GameSpot also criticizes this version, stating that "Glover,…
  • In the Baopuzi, Ge Hong criticizes contemporary charlatans who claimed to…
  • Lobbycontrol criticizes, for example, the "Standortcheck" (Business…
  • Mortimer criticizes the King's obsession with his…
  • Dela Rosa criticizes the CHR for visiting the…

“criticises”

  • In the book's introduction, Barrett criticises the trend amongst processual archaeologists…
  • Noyes criticises Tolstoy's dismissal of beauty, but…
  • …not correlate with skill, and criticises it for a lack of…
  • An RPGFans review criticises this game as being the…
  • She criticises Jupiter for all of the…
  • The decision criticises the EPO's reliance on insisting…
  • …in English society, and even criticises abuses in his own Dominican
  • …LCI and I>télé, where he criticises what he considered to be…
  • Lehman criticises the volume's implications that Muslims…
  • …hypocrisies relating to prostitution, and criticises the limited employment opportunities available…

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