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“Gram” or “Gramme”

Gram is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while gramme 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, 12 prefer “gram” and 0 prefer “gramme”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country gram gramme Preference
United States 100 0 “gram”
United Kingdom 99 1 “gram”
India 100 0 “gram”
Philippines 100 0 “gram”
Canada 71 29 “gram”
Australia 99 1 “gram”
Liberia 100 0 “gram”
Ireland 98 2 “gram”
New Zealand 99 1 “gram”
Jamaica 100 0 “gram”
Trinidad & Tobago 100 0 “gram”
Guyana 100 0 “gram”
Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“gram”

  • Rooplisar is the gram panchayat of the village.
  • After Gram was broken by Odin, Borghild…
  • …70 and starring former Byrd Gram Parsons (unrelated to Gene Parsons)…
  • …litron for litre, livre for kilogram, once for hectogram, lood for…
  • There are 389 Gram Panchayats and 995 villages in…
  • …Shahbajpur Istmurar, (B) Makhria-Name of Gram Panchyat-Shahbajpur Istmurar
  • One gram of 210Po could thus in…
  • …weighs no more than 1 gram at birth, and is held…
  • …farmer came across a 1,724.8 gram mass while plowing a field.
  • 2009 saw Gram and his Cult Fiction team…

“gramme”

  • 1826 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme…
  • "Gramme Friday" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon) -
  • It flows into the Gramme near Werningshausen.
  • "Gramme 2 Peuf" was his first…
  • …of 9644 and a 2 gramme annual aggregate manufacturing quota as…
  • Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), inventor
  • …meaning 'dark' or 'black' and gramme, 'line', referring to the dark…
  • Gramme, Zénobe –
  • Gramme dynamo – Zénobe Gramme
  • …degree "HEC Liège / HELMo Gramme - Ingénieur industriel & de…

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