“Specialized” or “Specialised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 12 prefer “specialized” and 0 prefer “specialised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	specialized	specialised	Preference
United States	100	0	“specialized”
United Kingdom	75	25	“specialized”
India	59	41	“specialized”
Philippines	99	1	“specialized”
Canada	99	1	“specialized”
Australia	67	33	“specialized”
Liberia	100	0	“specialized”
Ireland	75	25	“specialized”
New Zealand	78	22	“specialized”
Jamaica	85	15	“specialized”
Trinidad & Tobago	81	19	“specialized”
Guyana	100	0	“specialized”

Usage

Examples in context

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

“specialized”

…of medicine which are highly specialized and not widely accessed.
…an elite special intervention unit specialized in hostage taking, very serious…
…it may be delegated to specialized panels within these courts (such…
…holometabolans are very often more specialized than those of hemimetabolans.
…Meat Factory, and are heavily specialized for their purpose to the…
Criaerd specialized in furniture veneered with Chinese…
…Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he specialized in general, cardiothoracic and thoracic…
…IDW Data Store but the specialized SPT Data Store.
…is a Cameroonian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
…frame Schönhage–Strassen as being a specialized multiplication algorithm for computing not…

“specialised”

…criminals from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire who specialised in stealing fine art and…
After 1860 the Clydeside shipyards specialised in steamships made of iron…
The Guild of Handicraft specialised in metalworking, producing jewellery and…
…an American archaeologist and anthropologist specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and…
…giving rise to more developed, specialised and sophisticated tools such as…
Hering specialised in Italian scenery, particularly with
…of Korvettenkapitän Ernst Mengersen, and specialised in tactical training (Vortaktische Ausbildung).
Arndell School is a specialised school funded by the NSW…
…that offers a range of specialised, direct entry English programmes that…
…neuronal status towards microglia through specialised somatic-junctions

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