“Prioritizing” or “Prioritising”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “prioritizing” and 4 prefer “prioritising”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	prioritizing	prioritising	Preference
United States	98	2	“prioritizing”
United Kingdom	19	81	“prioritising”
India	72	28	“prioritizing”
Philippines	97	3	“prioritizing”
Canada	94	6	“prioritizing”
Australia	23	77	“prioritising”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	31	69	“prioritising”
New Zealand	30	70	“prioritising”
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.

“prioritizing”

…lazy and a terrible coward, prioritizing and making sandwiches above all
…includes tasks such as planning, prioritizing and decision making.
…competency center in healthcare involves prioritizing information needs, creating data governance…
…who needed help the most, prioritizing and allocating medical aid, food…
…carry out surveys through Vestfold, prioritizing it higher than the surveys…
4279) was known as Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual…
…Bucharest, creating an infrastructure for prioritizing public transport over other traffic…
…committee's activities eventually morphed into prioritizing targets for early imaging satellite
…the emphasis from storytelling to prioritizing toy merchandising.
…nonsense to speak of "emphatically prioritizing the social over the individual,"

“prioritising”

…the more urgent cases by prioritising them.
…for their own partner, while prioritising traits that provide benefits to…
…to the tragic incidents were prioritising the safety of festival attendees.
…for the precinct along with prioritising any future development.
…of the "Second Wave" groups prioritising urban action with no specific…
…regular basis after ten years prioritising boxing.
…library's ongoing digitisation project is prioritising Bordeaux heritage, as well as…
VVD has supported prioritising security over civil liberties.
…to use faith criteria in prioritising pupils for admission to the
…result of the US Navy prioritising deliveries to its forces fighting…

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