“Scrutinize” or “Scrutinise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 6 prefer “scrutinize” and 4 prefer “scrutinise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	scrutinize	scrutinise	Preference
United States	99	1	“scrutinize”
United Kingdom	35	65	“scrutinise”
India	89	11	“scrutinize”
Philippines	100	0	“scrutinize”
Canada	98	2	“scrutinize”
Australia	42	58	“scrutinise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	38	62	“scrutinise”
New Zealand	49	51	“scrutinise”
Jamaica	100	0	“scrutinize”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“scrutinize”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“scrutinize”

…allow citizens to more directly scrutinize and participate in the process.
…military decided that it would scrutinize the regulatory practices of both
…exercising the parliamentary right to scrutinize government actions.
…honour to this country to scrutinize carefully into the various branches…
…travelled to Leisure Ford to scrutinize the battlefield.
…torrents of e-mail; the latter scrutinize the show with an intensity…
…harass Teena and Tisdel and scrutinize their relationship.
…a way to categorize and scrutinize information before accepting it as
…had had an opportunity to scrutinize and verify the methods used…
…lifetime, so that they would scrutinize them and tell them if,…

“scrutinise”

…an EPO; they could not scrutinise or amend them as they…
…function of which is to scrutinise all European Union documents and…
…balked - the instinct to scrutinise and appraise the value of…
…the court is right to scrutinise the UK Government.
…was given 30 days to scrutinise the draft and forward proposals…
…has also caused lawyers to scrutinise websites for this information and…
…judges to the need to scrutinise applications for disclosure of details…
…necessary for union members to scrutinise the actions of the leadership.
…the office holder is to scrutinise the actions of the government's…
…Office for Budget Responsibility to scrutinise Opposition manifestos was passed 203–16,…

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