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“Memorized” or “Memorised”

Memorized is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while memorised 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, 5 prefer “memorized” and 2 prefer “memorised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country memorized memorised Preference
United States 98 2 “memorized”
United Kingdom 39 61 “memorised”
India 71 29 “memorized”
Philippines 100 0 “memorized”
Canada 100 0 “memorized”
Australia 42 58 “memorised”
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 100 0 “memorized”
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

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

“memorized”

  • …Anazzah clan, and he had memorized the Quran by the age…
  • …lines of poetry to be memorized; Disch wound up memorizing ten…
  • He memorized the commentary on Qur'an by
  • Other brokers may have memorized data and tell the main…
  • …and the traditional arts and memorized a great number of proverbs,…
  • …record for the most digits memorized in five minutes was 568,…
  • …goes far beyond simply repeating memorized material but to being able…
  • …more secure than a static memorized password, users of OTP systems…
  • …poems of the post-war South, memorized and recited by generations of…
  • Before then they had been memorized and told for generations.

“memorised”

  • He then memorised two more ajza under Moulana…
  • …plant names that he had memorised from Robert Brown's reading of…
  • In Rubik's cubers' parlance, a memorised sequence of moves that has…
  • …3,500 places and having once memorised the entire British railway timetable.
  • …the early church musicians, who memorised the phthongoi by the intonation…
  • …emotional context does not get memorised, so the idea that we…
  • She had eidetic memory and memorised the second volume of the…
  • …Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama where he memorised the Qur'an at an early
  • …such retroactive application is commonly memorised as a Latin sentence Lex…
  • …all of the cubes are memorised, and then all of the…

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