“Plowing” or “Ploughing”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 3 prefer “plowing” and 9 prefer “ploughing”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	plowing	ploughing	Preference
United States	96	4	“plowing”
United Kingdom	12	88	“ploughing”
India	9	91	“ploughing”
Philippines	87	13	“plowing”
Canada	91	9	“plowing”
Australia	36	64	“ploughing”
Liberia	0	100	“ploughing”
Ireland	2	98	“ploughing”
New Zealand	25	75	“ploughing”
Jamaica	30	70	“ploughing”
Trinidad & Tobago	0	100	“ploughing”
Guyana	0	100	“ploughing”

Usage

Examples in context

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

“plowing”

…practices include crop rotation, deep plowing, and avoiding field operations when…
Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to…
…a 1,724.8 gram mass while plowing a field.
…be any compaction due to plowing.
…soil, the clearing of land, plowing, manuring, and irrigation, hedges and…
…plow and sowing salt or plowing the beach.
…had done a better job plowing the road in winter, and…
Plugușorul (Plowing is symbolic, ) is a…
…the Indian graves again during plowing of farmland, not aware of…
Farmer plowing — symbol of the agricultural…

“ploughing”

…in everyday activities such as ploughing, planting, threshing, and fishing took…
…villagers and 10 smallholders; with ploughing land and a mill, it…
…ornamented with scenes of men ploughing with oxen, one with a…
…not only brought power to ploughing, harrowing, and belt work but…
…became more clearly gendered, with ploughing and managing the fields defined…
…of Harvest the final local ploughing contest??
…skim across the lunar surface ploughing out these features.
Erosion and ploughing had made it totally invisible.
…and much more powerful tugs ploughing up and down the river…
…envelope, unaware that they're simply ploughing furrows dug by DJ Shadow…

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