“Summarize” or “Summarise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 8 prefer “summarize” and 4 prefer “summarise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	summarize	summarise	Preference
United States	98	2	“summarize”
United Kingdom	21	79	“summarise”
India	61	39	“summarize”
Philippines	99	1	“summarize”
Canada	93	7	“summarize”
Australia	33	67	“summarise”
Liberia	100	0	“summarize”
Ireland	38	62	“summarise”
New Zealand	36	64	“summarise”
Jamaica	87	13	“summarize”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“summarize”
Guyana	100	0	“summarize”

Usage

Examples in context

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

“summarize”

To summarize why he deserves a raise,…
To summarize, Dupin cyclides are determined by…
…opponent of using symbols to summarize a review and wrote in…
Zedler intended to summarize many previously available reference works…
…to be lengthy and to summarize substantial amounts of doctrine.
They also summarize much of the work promoted…
Résumés summarize a person's education and job…
…positive in the statements that summarize their opinions.
…the case of dumb show—to summarize the plot or underscore what…
To summarize, the probability distribution of the…

“summarise”

The graphs on the right summarise the speeds obtainable for each…
The following table summarise the only Twenty20 International century…
…a calculation that tries to summarise the positive effects of the…
In fact, this concept is summarise by match and join a…
…Formula One car and would summarise what operations the equipment performed…
…employed him to copy and summarise some of the parliamentary records…
Dean and Knapp summarise the 1731 revisions as "a…
…Michael Doyle and Nicolas Sambanis summarise Boutros Boutros’ report as preventative…
To summarise, East Asians would focus on…
…Chesterton used the phrase to summarise his own distributist opinions.

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