“Satirizes” or “Satirises”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “satirizes” and 2 prefer “satirises”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	satirizes	satirises	Preference
United States	100	0	“satirizes”
United Kingdom	33	67	“satirises”
India	55	45	“satirizes”
Philippines	100	0	“satirizes”
Canada	100	0	“satirizes”
Australia	0	100	“satirises”
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.

“satirizes”

…4 da Club" by $wagCh0de satirizes the critically panned crunkcore group…
…comical folklore manner, the play satirizes the way of understanding of…
…onstage clad as Hitler and satirizes him, knowing he will have…
…outbreak of World War II, satirizes Nazi Germany by including a…
The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic…
…Vindication of Natural Society and satirizes the deism of his contemporary…
It satirizes the everyday work life of…
The low-budget movie satirizes television and the counterculture of…
The book, in which Bilse satirizes the manners of the Forbach…
The game satirizes religion, the role-playing game genre,…

“satirises”

Bill Griffith satirises this dysphoria when his cartoon…
…Harrison's Bill, the Galactic Hero satirises Trantor, highlighting the problems of…
Each story satirises a specific misogynist stereotype, like…
…An Epistle to Burlington and satirises Hearne as the pedant Wormius…
…This spoof of The Bill satirises the excessive political correctness in…
The series satirises human pretensions, and especially, in…
…of the Burning Pestle (1607), satirises the rising middle class and…
…Hiram J. Pipesucker, the sketch satirises the American media's coverage of…
…of the fictional Kerblam company satirises both the retailer Amazon.com and…
…The Big Purge which brazenly satirises Mahathir and Operation Lalang.

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