“Popularized” or “Popularised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

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

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	popularized	popularised	Preference
United States	98	2	“popularized”
United Kingdom	26	74	“popularised”
India	50	50	No clear preference
Philippines	99	1	“popularized”
Canada	100	0	“popularized”
Australia	34	66	“popularised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	100	“popularised”
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.

“popularized”

…rather than the meme's iteration popularized in 2017, which portrays pods…
The Civil War popularized six-shot Colt and Smith &…
…are unknown, though it was popularized in the 1850s, but later…
It was first popularized in social media sites such…
It was popularized in the 1950s by dance…
…as the Yamaha DX7 were popularized, and a group of musicians…
…Love to Infinity dance remix popularized the song on radio.
…History of Europe and Asia popularized the alternate term "European Miracle".
In Japan, flash fiction was popularized in the post-war period particularly…
The pedal was popularized by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

“popularised”

Vincent Gajewski popularised the language as the president…
…foundations of ethological research, further popularised animal behaviorism with his books,…
Though the Vipassana movement has popularised meditation both in traditional Theravāda…
It was popularised in the English speaking world…
…developed by A. Voellmy and popularised following the publication in 1955…
Fisher popularised the use of Jacques Derrida's…
…Post in 1986 and later popularised by Douglas Coupland's novel Generation…
…Schulze in the 1920s and popularised by Isaac Schapera.
…by Johnny Moynihan and then popularised by Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine,…
…of Submitters in Nigeria was popularised by high court judge Isa

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