“Popularize” or “Popularise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

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

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	popularize	popularise	Preference
United States	97	3	“popularize”
United Kingdom	31	69	“popularise”
India	54	46	“popularize”
Philippines	100	0	“popularize”
Canada	30	70	“popularise”
Australia	37	63	“popularise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
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.

“popularize”

…he deployed to frame and popularize for postwar labor-liberals key issues…
…good looks, Asao helped to popularize beach volleyball in Japan.
…these years helped familiarize and popularize the use of stamps for…
…strong official support, arguably helped popularize in Argentina.
…been credited with helping to popularize "Street Literature" as a genre…
…"New Jack Swing", helping to popularize the new name for the…
…depended on using tournaments to popularize karate to a worldwide audience.
…online messages in order to popularize the project and help combat
Head skis helped to popularize alpine skiing in the U.S.;…
Paul Erdman helped popularize the modern financial thriller, with…

“popularise”

…Roman-Zeitung, a magazine designed to popularise Soviet literature.
…Derry/Londonderry name dispute was to popularise the jocular name "Stroke City"…
…associated in the effort to popularise langdi in other countries, such…
…Scott's Waverley novels further helped popularise Scottish life and history.
…to county standard and helped popularise Go, an Asian boardgame, through…
…Scientific, which were efforts to popularise the work of Karl Marx,…
…Coombs, who did much to popularise Ieper and the Salient for…
James Tyler did much to popularise the playing of these consorts…
…metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in…
…through three editions and helped popularise the form.

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