“Visualize” or “Visualise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 6 prefer “visualize” and 4 prefer “visualise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	visualize	visualise	Preference
United States	98	2	“visualize”
United Kingdom	34	66	“visualise”
India	63	37	“visualize”
Philippines	99	1	“visualize”
Canada	94	6	“visualize”
Australia	34	66	“visualise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	47	53	“visualise”
New Zealand	43	57	“visualise”
Jamaica	100	0	“visualize”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“visualize”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“visualize”

…toxicity, as well as to visualize or quantify the amount of…
…necessary for an adept to visualize deities.
…provides an efficient way to visualize the homogeneity and/or the defects…
…of a fictitious cult-like group, "Visualize", who lived and worked at…
…exploited by the NASA to visualize the time sequence of events…
…humans to observe, researchers can visualize the hydrodynamic stimuli that animals…
Overhead indicators are used to visualize the occurrence of an electrical…
…song, using paint brushes to visualize the Japanese records he plays.
…the figure below to conceptually visualize what is obtained through strain
…are three main variables to visualize a traffic stream: speed (v),…

“visualise”

…he felt a need to visualise it with the help of
The Visualise Tour: Live in Concert
…(computed tomography angiography), used to visualise arterial and venous vessels, is…
…ability to build mental pictures, visualise possibilities and new things or…
…three-dimensional software in order to visualise its form and geometrical compatibility,…
Interpretation and reconstruction illustration: To visualise the results of archaeological field…
Filmed during The Visualise Tour on 24 July 2005…
…well as a means to visualise lives once again intermingled.”
…communication that empowers communities to visualise aspirations and discover solutions to…
…for researchers to map and visualise data concerning texts and artefacts…

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