“Honored” or “Honoured”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “honored” and 6 prefer “honoured”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	honored	honoured	Preference
United States	97	3	“honored”
United Kingdom	26	74	“honoured”
India	28	72	“honoured”
Philippines	89	11	“honored”
Canada	51	49	“honored”
Australia	31	69	“honoured”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	27	73	“honoured”
New Zealand	37	63	“honoured”
Jamaica	42	58	“honoured”
Trinidad & Tobago	54	46	“honored”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“honored”

…a list of real people honored by having a G.I.
Sacramento City Unified School District honored Serna by naming their new…
…("The 34th Floor"), Detective Taylor honored Monroe by awarding her a…
…the duke of Savoy, and honored him with the title of…
The turtles are honored by Vincent and the NYPD…
The new name honored John R. Walsh (1837–1911) of
…Central University of Venezuela, unanimously honored him in 1976.
…his son Emperor Fei, who honored her as grand empress dowager.
She was honored with a Nigeria Goodwill Ambassador…
Honored people and films include

“honoured”

In 1959, Unesco honoured Zamenhof in the occasion of…
…responded, "Do not be agitated, honoured emperor.
…became only the fifth person honoured by an 'SFA Lifetime Achievement
As for Corbulo, he was honoured by Nero as the man…
…ancestors, where their spirits are honoured with offerings including food, beverages,…
She was honoured with various awards and was…
…Crécy, Edward, the Black Prince honoured the bravery of John I,…
…king Leopold II, and was honoured for doing so.
…in the industry and was honoured in 2002, when the station…
O’Reilly was honoured as one of four scientists…

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