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“Miters” or “Mitres”

Miters is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while mitres 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, 3 prefer “miters” and 4 prefer “mitres”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country miters mitres Preference
United States 82 18 “miters”
United Kingdom 22 78 “mitres”
India 84 16 “miters”
Philippines 100 0 “miters”
Canada 50 50 No clear preference
Australia 23 77 “mitres”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 0 100 “mitres”
New Zealand 0 100 “mitres”
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.

“miters”

  • …in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
  • …in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
  • …in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  • …in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

“mitres”

  • …years: The National Autonomist Party (PAN).
  • The mitres worn by bishops and abbots…
  • …others as bishops by their mitres.
  • …England, in their copes and mitres, waited outside the Great West…
  • On episcopal mitres
  • …from the Greek word mitra (μίτρα).
  • …in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.
  • …after ... crowns, coronets and mitres."
  • …which the Unitarian Party had divided.
  • …enarched of the second two mitres also gules, and for a…

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