Saviors and saviours are both English terms.
Saviors is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US
) while saviours is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB
).
In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:
Term | US | UK | India | Philippines | Canada | Australia | Liberia | Ireland | New Zealand | Jamaica | Trinidad & Tobago | Guyana |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
saviors | 90 | 10 | 27 | 82 | 68 | 31 | 0 | 16 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
saviours | 10 | 90 | 73 | 18 | 32 | 69 | 0 | 84 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Below, we provide some examples of when to use saviors or saviours with sample sentences.
(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)