“Theorizing” or “Theorising”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “theorizing” and 3 prefer “theorising”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	theorizing	theorising	Preference
United States	95	5	“theorizing”
United Kingdom	46	54	“theorising”
India	68	32	“theorizing”
Philippines	100	0	“theorizing”
Canada	88	12	“theorizing”
Australia	40	60	“theorising”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	100	“theorising”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
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.

“theorizing”

When theorizing about the purposes of the…
…a dream, George ends up theorizing that one can't dream of…
…anti-necessitarian theory of social change, theorizing the transition from one set…
…politics, or political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences…
…books she has co-edited include Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism…
The beginnings of Freudo-Marxist theorizing took place in the 1920s…
…310 psi, with Geoff Desmoulin theorizing that a Zulu warrior behind…
The predominant approach to theorizing about deterrence has entailed the…
…Labor migration, externalities and ethics: Theorizing the meso-level determinants of HIV
…identified Milachchhrikara with Iltutmish, thus theorizing that Iltutmish unsuccessfully tried to…

“theorising”

…left its mark on socio-legal theorising, but also the work of…
"Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern
…starting point for future dream theorising, the picture would look like
…approach recognises the impossibility of theorising justice and injustice as mutually…
…League, who said that Oren's theorising "veers into the realm of…
…biological sex, and that transgender theorising was associated with the rise…
…essentials of philosophy and scientific theorising to students and general readers".
…gay people's lives with the theorising of lesbian and gay issues,…
"Theorising feminist foreign policy."
…perfectly reasonably, is high-end, post-modern theorising, with just a touch of…

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