“Moldings” or “Mouldings”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 1 prefer “moldings” and 8 prefer “mouldings”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	moldings	mouldings	Preference
United States	66	34	“moldings”
United Kingdom	5	95	“mouldings”
India	16	84	“mouldings”
Philippines	32	68	“mouldings”
Canada	26	74	“mouldings”
Australia	6	94	“mouldings”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	3	97	“mouldings”
New Zealand	10	90	“mouldings”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	100	“mouldings”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“moldings”

Revash's funeral houses have moldings around the tops of the…
…widespread use of highly sophisticated moldings and columnar orders.
…feature carved floral decorations and moldings, while the doors leading to…
…flares, and black rocker panel moldings.
…have only plain baseboards and moldings), six-panelled transomed doors off corridors…
Make or install sashes or moldings for glass installation
…due to the wider side moldings.
…wooden surrounds and plaster cornice moldings at the ceiling.
…and original doors with architrave moldings.
…uses Technic pieces and specialist moldings to create a set of…

“mouldings”

…a cornice interrupted by rounded mouldings, an arched entrance flanked by…
…a round-arched stone-dressed window with mouldings, linked to the entablature by…
The pabhaga has five base mouldings — khura, kumbha, pata, kani…
…pressed metal cornice, featuring decorative mouldings and lions heads.
…doors and fittings have no mouldings.
Bada is of five mouldings measuring 1.68 m. Gandi with…
…the front bumpers, chrome exterior mouldings, chrome window trims and a…
…arches without tracery and convoluted mouldings, is known as Early English
…by panels with dog tooth mouldings.
…with slightly rounded window corner mouldings but by comparison with Stanier…

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