“Memorialized” or “Memorialised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “memorialized” and 2 prefer “memorialised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	memorialized	memorialised	Preference
United States	99	1	“memorialized”
United Kingdom	49	51	“memorialised”
India	78	22	“memorialized”
Philippines	100	0	“memorialized”
Canada	100	0	“memorialized”
Australia	39	61	“memorialised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
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.

“memorialized”

…(Thomas) More and (Oliver) Plunkett, memorialized both in stained glass windows…
…1921, the still-obscure Dorothy Parker memorialized her performance in verse:
Lagerfeld was memorialized on 20 June 2019 at…
Their win is memorialized on the Stanley Cup as…
…of the School which also memorialized the children who attended the…
…Senior Editor Richard L. Collins memorialized his dear friend and colleague…
…died in childbirth and was memorialized in a shrine.
…"good old Mantuan" he was memorialized as the foolish Holofernes' favorite…
Davis is memorialized through the Isaac Davis Monument…
…with the 10th Battalion are memorialized on the Calgary Soldiers' Memorial.

“memorialised”

The disaster was memorialised by Belfast poet Roy McFadden…
He has been memorialised at Simon Fraser University with…
…sites were left unmarked, others memorialised with standing stones or burial
He is also memorialised on the family grave in
…no longer exists, he is memorialised with a monument, plaque and…
He is also memorialised on his parents grave in…
People memorialised
…the NSW parliament) are also memorialised on the school's honour board…
The Stanley crest is today memorialised in the name of several…
…prerequisites for peace, are similarly memorialised on the land and embedded…

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