“Laborer” or “Labourer”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 2 prefer “laborer” and 8 prefer “labourer”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	laborer	labourer	Preference
United States	96	4	“laborer”
United Kingdom	4	96	“labourer”
India	12	88	“labourer”
Philippines	86	14	“laborer”
Canada	19	81	“labourer”
Australia	6	94	“labourer”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	6	94	“labourer”
New Zealand	9	91	“labourer”
Jamaica	0	100	“labourer”
Trinidad & Tobago	23	77	“labourer”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“laborer”

…is the expenditure that the laborer puts into a commodity.
…Rogers found work as a laborer in Hoosick Falls, New York,…
…struck up relationships with a laborer, Morris Knapp, and two brothers…
Her father was a forced laborer from Poland who settled in…
…Foster (Hal Williams), an itinerant laborer (who it is later revealed…
…the part of an Italian laborer mourning the death of his
…worked swing shift as a laborer in the Kaiser Shipyards in…
…1926 he worked as a laborer at the Alexandrov railway station.
…orphan and then an itinerant laborer.
…father worked sometimes as a laborer and sometimes served in the…

“labourer”

…School to work as a labourer and then at collieries in…
Rob Aromin - labourer
…pounds to Mr John Neville, labourer, who in turn, in 1852…
…entering the workforce as a labourer and steel rollerman in nearby
…Act intended to help agricultural labourers purchase small holdings of land…
Macauley worked as a labourer on the Grand Trunk Pacific…
…as Patrick had been a labourer in his youth, they were…
…was described as an agricultural labourer in the 1851 census of…
Derrick Gregory, a British labourer who was executed on 21…
…The Dark, worked as a labourer and barman, and married Annikki…

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