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“Jailer” or “Gaoler”

Jailer is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while gaoler 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, 8 prefer “jailer” and 0 prefer “gaoler”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country jailer gaoler Preference
United States 95 5 “jailer”
United Kingdom 86 14 “jailer”
India 96 4 “jailer”
Philippines 88 12 “jailer”
Canada 90 10 “jailer”
Australia 91 9 “jailer”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 100 0 “jailer”
New Zealand 100 0 “jailer”
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.

“jailer”

  • …thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them
  • …officials, except for elderly nighttime jailer Jeremiah Gibson, from duty.
  • G. V. Sudhakar Naidu as Jailer
  • Bert Sprotte as Big Jailer
  • …call the attention of her jailer.
  • …result of the Act, the jailer could now reply that a…
  • The financial arrangements of the jailer were similar to those of…
  • …describes God is the chief jailer of this prison of the…
  • …contained living space for the jailer on the second story and…
  • …aimed at the murderer and Jailer Mitchell was struck twice in…

“gaoler”

  • Charles Henry Cox, Senior Gaoler, Prisons Department, Singapore.
  • …the recollections of Norfolk Island gaoler Robert Jones.
  • …the wife of the town gaoler in Newcastle upon Tyne, came…
  • …to attend by his Nottingham gaoler Robert White causing a sharp…
  • …hears with pleasure that the gaoler McGuffog has a man in
  • Henry Vincent, the Gaoler at Fremantle, was put in…
  • …Millar, Inspector of Police, and Gaoler, Nassau Prison, Bahamas.
  • Mowbray also forced the gaoler of Bury St Edmunds to…
  • But suddenly, her gaoler, the Marquis de Canillac, switched…
  • …in Z-Cars (1968); Gideon the Gaoler in Rogues' Gallery (1968), and…

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