“Standardize” or “Standardise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “standardize” and 4 prefer “standardise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	standardize	standardise	Preference
United States	99	1	“standardize”
United Kingdom	32	68	“standardise”
India	69	31	“standardize”
Philippines	98	2	“standardize”
Canada	93	7	“standardize”
Australia	35	65	“standardise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	40	60	“standardise”
New Zealand	39	61	“standardise”
Jamaica	100	0	“standardize”
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.

“standardize”

…include a similar approach to standardize the statistical resolving power of…
…there were serious efforts to standardize recording characteristics within an industry.
The initial idea was to standardize on a small subset of…
…legally sound PA is to standardize operations, communicate formally with employees,…
…codes created to help airlines standardize conditions of travel on passenger…
…Conference in 1928 attempted to standardize a writing system for the…
…pan-European project to define and standardize the depth and scope of…
…were started in 1942 to standardize within the National Association of…
…institutions that are looking to standardize the Know Your Customer (KYC)…
…of the earliest attempts to standardize a white pages schema for…

“standardise”

…underway; the intention being to standardise local registers and permit central…
Eventually, it was decided to standardise on a colour which became…
…informal learning in 2009 to standardise validation throughout the EU.
…Nine Principles to Encourage and Standardise Enterprises' Overseas Investment, a charter…
…these publishers could rationalise and standardise publishing, marketing, printing, etc.
…was taken in 1910 to standardise the gauge, using the Broad…
…is credited with helping to standardise the London Dialect of the…
…the non-profit Cadèmia Siciliana to standardise the orthography for written insular
…it was quickly decided to standardise on new 4-wheel trucks.
…companies increases as they cannot standardise products and projects, different cultures…

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