“Mobilize” or “Mobilise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “mobilize” and 4 prefer “mobilise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	mobilize	mobilise	Preference
United States	99	1	“mobilize”
United Kingdom	30	70	“mobilise”
India	53	47	“mobilize”
Philippines	96	4	“mobilize”
Canada	89	11	“mobilize”
Australia	32	68	“mobilise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	40	60	“mobilise”
New Zealand	49	51	“mobilise”
Jamaica	100	0	“mobilize”
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.

“mobilize”

…of Defense was asked to mobilize its Army Reserve unit in…
…the potential of people to mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of
In order to mobilize funds for this social cause,…
…the capacity of opponents to mobilize against executive action
…the Muslim League, tried to mobilize it for their own sake.
…units of Serbs he would mobilize to join the Army of…
…border, while Austria-Hungary began to mobilize against Serbia.
…Egyptian revolution, where he helped mobilize workers in the nationwide movement…
…just feel that I can’t mobilize that amount of greatness and…
The initiative endeavors to mobilize around 1000 qualified Somali youth…

“mobilise”

So rapidly did they mobilise that some of them had…
…confront the Jews and to mobilise Moslem opinion on the issue…
…Cypriot National Guard managed to mobilise only a fraction of its…
…property taxes are used to mobilise local resources.
…Books Dispute - attempted to mobilise Sydney Anarchists to reform &…
…argue the best way to mobilise the mass campaign that is…
…movement vowing to gather and mobilise the social majority who was…
…Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Russia would mobilise to assist allied Serbia, Germany…
…session when a decision to mobilise is taken, it must be…
…to their drill halls to mobilise, the men being billeted close

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