Get started

“Generalizes” or “Generalises”

Generalizes is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while generalises is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

Get Sapling See examples
Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 3 prefer “generalizes” and 0 prefer “generalises”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country generalizes generalises Preference
United States 100 0 “generalizes”
United Kingdom 0 0 Not enough data
India 100 0 “generalizes”
Philippines 100 0 “generalizes”
Canada 0 0 Not enough data
Australia 0 0 Not enough data
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 0 0 Not enough data
New Zealand 0 0 Not enough data
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.

“generalizes”

  • (This generalizes the example of 5 given
  • …has infimum and supremum; this generalizes the analogous properties of the…
  • This generalizes the theory in finite dimensions…
  • The Gaussian coefficient generalizes a conventional simple thresholding scheme,…
  • …conjecture, which became Szemerédi's theorem, generalizes the statement of van der…
  • The former generalizes a similar approach, for first-order…
  • …a single verbal nucleus; it generalizes the notion of valency to…
  • Geometrically, it generalizes a quotient of a scheme…
  • The Loewner semigroup generalizes the notion of a univalent
  • This generalizes the Cartesian product of the…

“generalises”

  • This construction readily generalises to any finite number of…
  • As such a magic hyperbeam generalises the two dimensional magic rectangle…
  • Kneser's theorem generalises this to general abelian groups.
  • This generalises the product rule for matrices.
  • …oriented and scalable map (OS-Map) generalises the neighborhood function and the…
  • PAM generalises all features of PBM, PGM…
  • The more lengthy Leibniz formula generalises these two formulae to all
  • The first, which generalises directly the reciprocal lattice construction,…
  • To see that this generalises Sz.-Nagy's theorem, note that contraction…
  • This, of course, generalises the notation introduced before.

Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Too much to remember?

Looking for a tool that handles this for you wherever you write?

Install Sapling Try the grammar checker