“Milliliter” or “Millilitre”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 9 prefer “milliliter” and 1 prefer “millilitre”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	milliliter	millilitre	Preference
United States	100	0	“milliliter”
United Kingdom	64	36	“milliliter”
India	75	25	“milliliter”
Philippines	98	2	“milliliter”
Canada	37	63	“millilitre”
Australia	58	42	“milliliter”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	74	26	“milliliter”
New Zealand	67	33	“milliliter”
Jamaica	84	16	“milliliter”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“milliliter”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“milliliter”

…200 copies of HIV per milliliter of blood) should not be…
1 milliliter of blood has a mass…
…also contain more than 0.2 milliliter volatile oil per 100 grams…
…more of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol per milliliter in whole blood, as shown…
…a pharmacist recalled a 10 milliliter vial of the drug selling…
…to testing, drinks two 240 milliliter glasses of soy milk or…
…concentration of 1,352 nanograms per milliliter of salbutamol, above the 1,000…
In a 100 milliliter (ml) portion, coconut milk contains…
…range of few micrograms per milliliter.
per milliliter of the person's whole blood…

“millilitre”

Millilitre (mL, informally "mil"), a volume
…(less than 200 copies per millilitre of blood); (2) condoms are…
…of number of fibres per millilitre of air (f/ml).
…and ㎘ for the microlitre, millilitre, decilitre and kilolitre.
…used derived unit is the millilitre, defined as one-thousandth of a…
…at least 10,000 cells per millilitre.
…States, NIST advocates using the millilitre or litre instead of the
…cubic centimetre, equal to a millilitre or mL) is a unit…
…levels of 250,000,000 bacteriophages per millilitre of seawater.
…English, the symbol "mL" (for millilitre) can be pronounced as "mil",…

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