“Memorizing” or “Memorising”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “memorizing” and 3 prefer “memorising”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	memorizing	memorising	Preference
United States	98	2	“memorizing”
United Kingdom	34	66	“memorising”
India	68	32	“memorizing”
Philippines	96	4	“memorizing”
Canada	95	5	“memorizing”
Australia	32	68	“memorising”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	52	48	“memorizing”
New Zealand	38	62	“memorising”
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.

“memorizing”

…he had also undertook artworks memorizing the effort of the soldiers…
…learner, which becomes useful in memorizing SG mission reports and earth
…last act and having difficulty memorizing his routine.
…includes both the time spent memorizing the cube and the time…
…Taiwan learning basic Chinese and memorizing the lines to his first…
…be memorized; Disch wound up memorizing ten times as much.
…own experiences rather than by memorizing facts provided by others.
…the material, rather than simply memorizing the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments,…
This style of memorizing is known as the method…
…positioning of the trombone slide, memorizing guitar chords' and piano chords'…

“memorising”

…where he worked hard at memorising English vocabulary in order to…
…ups are fast reactions and memorising enemy attack patterns.
…high achievers in school by memorising concepts and taking notes religiously,…
mugging/cramming or mugging up (memorising, usually referring to learning "by…
Andimta involves memorising biblical interpretations from the past…
…linguistics offers some clues for memorising the accent position: If one…
…thus, the main challenge is memorising many – often ten or…
…colour-coding Chinese characters to assist memorising of the four tones in…
…than other openings that require memorising specific move orders to avoid…
…due to inconvenience borne from memorising longer, more convoluted names of…

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