“Fossilized” or “Fossilised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “fossilized” and 4 prefer “fossilised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	fossilized	fossilised	Preference
United States	98	2	“fossilized”
United Kingdom	35	65	“fossilised”
India	74	26	“fossilized”
Philippines	98	2	“fossilized”
Canada	94	6	“fossilized”
Australia	39	61	“fossilised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	45	55	“fossilised”
New Zealand	44	56	“fossilised”
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.

“fossilized”

…in paleontology refers to a fossilized fruit, nut, or seed
…fact microscopic organic imprints of fossilized melanosomes.
…fossil thought to include a fossilized heart
The fossilized skeleton of a man was…
…Curio Bay, logs of a fossilized forest closely related to modern…
…the lung fluke found in fossilized feces in northern Chile and…
…the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from…
Fossilized cnidarian medusae are described from…
…impossible, since no amber with fossilized mosquitoes has ever yielded preserved
…attention to the existence of fossilized animals that were different from…

“fossilised”

, microfossils, or fossilised microorganisms, within hydrothermal-vent precipitates dated…
…early procedure used to analyse fossilised material contained in coal balls.
It contains the fossilised stumps of eleven extinct Lepidodendron…
Faecal pellets fossilised beside it show that it…
…beds of Colorado and from fossilised Baltic amber in Europe.
…material include mummified tissues, coprolites (fossilised dung) from mammals or dinosaurs,…
The siphuncle found in fossilised cephalopods is assumed to have…
The earliest fossilised evidence of bone marrow was…
…is similar to that of fossilised vascular plants, rather than algae.
…Chapeltown they came across the fossilised tree stump of a Giant…

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