“Hybridized” or “Hybridised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “hybridized” and 4 prefer “hybridised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	hybridized	hybridised	Preference
United States	99	1	“hybridized”
United Kingdom	46	54	“hybridised”
India	49	51	“hybridised”
Philippines	100	0	“hybridized”
Canada	100	0	“hybridized”
Australia	40	60	“hybridised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	62	38	“hybridized”
New Zealand	0	100	“hybridised”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	100	0	“hybridized”

Usage

Examples in context

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

“hybridized”

Baird's sandpiper might have hybridized with the buff-breasted sandpiper.
S. orssichiana has been hybridized in cultivation with S. truncata…
Sweet hybridized varieties have been created with…
…intensities of each of the hybridized fluorophores.
…multiple-axis FOG and accelerometers and hybridized with GNSS data, the impact…
…by 1979, gothic films were hybridized with erotic themes that generally…
…tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which was hybridized along with the species Nicotiana…
It has been hybridized with related Argyranthemum species to…
…windswept scene of modern, globally hybridized beliefs, the installation expresses how…
…a hybrid, lions had been hybridized with several big cat species,…

“hybridised”

…bonds between atoms with sp3 hybridised orbitals) and leads to significant…
It was hybridised in the Veitch Nurseries in…
He successfully hybridised Orchis provincialis var.
…than normal and may have hybridised with the Three Kings cabbage…
It is powered by a hybridised version of the 1.5L SOHC…
…black duck occurs, it is hybridised by the much more aggressive…
…pumilio is thought to have hybridised with C. australis.
…for research, attempting to grow hybridised varieties of eggplant in his…
…was White's use of a hybridised, street language of London's East…
It has also hybridised with Zelkova carpinifolia in Europe,…

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