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“Eons” or “Aeons”

Eons is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while aeons 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 “eons” and 3 prefer “aeons”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country eons aeons Preference
United States 55 45 “eons”
United Kingdom 45 55 “aeons”
India 67 33 “eons”
Philippines 69 31 “eons”
Canada 48 52 “aeons”
Australia 51 49 “eons”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 50 50 No clear preference
New Zealand 47 53 “aeons”
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.

“eons”

  • Eons and eras are larger subdivisions…
  • …which petroleum accumulated over the eons.
  • …Kings event and revealed that eons ago the Shi'ar, used dark…
  • …gradually slow down over the eons, but those bodies that are…
  • …Sarine River, which over the eons had carved the bluff's curling
  • …of humanoids who inhabited Krypton eons before Superman's ancestors.
  • …ability to use Nicol Bolas' "Eons of Evil" deck in play.
  • …will "slake their hunger for eons".
  • …Me" (Eon's Ascension Mix) - 4:37
  • Exile of the Eons

“aeons”

  • …by experience through ages and aeons, of evolving into a God."
  • AEONS.
  • …is to separate the fallen Aeons from the upper world of
  • …of the system of thirty Aeons divided into two Tetrads, a…
  • …the generation of the thirty Aeons from the Ogdoad, we have…
  • …Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook AEONS.
  • …eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die".
  • …in the sphere of the Aeons brought matter into existence and…
  • …letter is one of the Aeons, and contains within itself an…
  • …details his designation of the Aeons as letters of the alphabet.

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