“Tunneling” or “Tunnelling”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 8 prefer “tunneling” and 0 prefer “tunnelling”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	tunneling	tunnelling	Preference
United States	95	5	“tunneling”
United Kingdom	67	33	“tunneling”
India	89	11	“tunneling”
Philippines	94	6	“tunneling”
Canada	82	18	“tunneling”
Australia	63	37	“tunneling”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	63	37	“tunneling”
New Zealand	72	28	“tunneling”
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.

“tunneling”

…substrates are available via scanning tunneling microscopy.
…OpenVPN, and Microsoft Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol are provided in a…
…to the need for new tunneling below Main Street and a…
By 2004, new tunneling equipment had been purchased, but…
…New Austrian Tunnelling method, a tunneling process developed in the early…
…as the command center for tunneling into the neighboring bank vault.
…cost of the bridging and tunneling was $110,000.
…October 1995 the 2nd Alpini Tunneling Engineer Battalion Iseo moved from…
This was the first time tunneling (instead of e.g.
Stochastic tunneling

“tunnelling”

…company manufactured pneumatic hammers for tunnelling.
…technique called the New Austrian Tunnelling method, a tunneling process developed…
Fox speaks of tunnelling for his goal, ‘age upon…
…Engineer Regiment morphing from a tunnelling to a sapper battalion in…
…mines already laid by 172nd Tunnelling Company were also dropped from…
…he was with New Zealand Tunnelling Company in France).
…new aqueduct, which involved more tunnelling, but by this time pneumatic…
…to rob a bank by tunnelling through from neighbouring houses.
…several times, due to difficult tunnelling conditions.
…since been used in most tunnelling projects, with other engineers' advancement…

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