Fertilizers and fertilisers are both English terms.
Fertilizers is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US
) while fertilisers is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB
).
In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:
Term | US | UK | India | Philippines | Canada | Australia | Liberia | Ireland | New Zealand | Jamaica | Trinidad & Tobago | Guyana |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fertilizers | 99 | 41 | 86 | 99 | 97 | 44 | 100 | 54 | 44 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
fertilisers | 1 | 59 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 56 | 0 | 46 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Below, we provide some examples of when to use fertilizers or fertilisers with sample sentences.
(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)