Sapling Logo

“Mustached” or “Moustached”

Language

Mustached and moustached are both English terms.

Usage

Mustached is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US) while moustached is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:

Term US UK India Philippines Canada Australia Liberia Ireland New Zealand Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Guyana
mustached 64 18 53 0 49 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
moustached 36 82 47 0 51 79 0 100 100 0 0 0

  • In the United States, there is a preference for "mustached" over "moustached" (64 to 36).
  • In the United Kingdom, there is a 82 to 18 preference for "moustached" over "mustached".
  • In India, there is a preference for "mustached" over "moustached" (53 to 47).
  • In the Philippines, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "mustached" and "moustached".
  • In Canada, there is a 51 to 49 preference for "moustached" over "mustached".
  • In Australia, there is a 79 to 21 preference for "moustached" over "mustached".
  • In Liberia, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "mustached" and "moustached".
  • In Ireland, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "moustached" over "mustached".
  • In New Zealand, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "moustached" over "mustached".
  • In Jamaica, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "mustached" and "moustached".
  • In Trinidad & Tobago, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "mustached" and "moustached".
  • In Guyana, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "mustached" and "moustached".
Examples

Below, we provide some examples of when to use mustached or moustached with sample sentences.

Trends

📈 See Trends

Looking for a tool that handles this for you wherever you write?

Get Sapling

Examples in Context

Examples of “mustached”

  • Shoe Shine Boys playing a mustached felon named Leo Henry Williams.
  • Wagner's mustached bat, Pteronotus personatus LR/lc
  • Sooty mustached bat, Pteronotus quadridens
  • in the Vladimir Grammatikov's comedy Mustached Nanny (1977).
  • Akumantle:A mustached villain.
  • Family Mormoopidae (mustached and ghost-faced bats)
  • for dances featuring men in mustached masks (imitating Spaniards), large-plumed hats
  • Parnell's mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii
  • Parnell's mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii LR/lc
  • A burly mustached man breaks into a seemingly

Examples of “moustached”

  • Moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax LC
  • in the character of a moustached man named Nigel (as a
  • a spring lanceolated warbler, two moustached warblers and a pine grosbeak.
  • Moustached laughingthrush, successfully introduced to Japan
  • Moustached grass warbler, Melocichla mentalisNorthern crombec,
  • Moustached warbler, Acrocephalus melanopogon (A)
  • novels The Nodes and The Moustached Aga by the Azeri writer
  • African moustached warbler, Melocichla mentalis(A)
  • albicans), emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator), moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax), Nancy Ma's
  • Moustached grass warbler, Melocichla mentalis


(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)


Too Much to Remember?

Install Sapling