“Vocalized” or “Vocalised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

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

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	vocalized	vocalised	Preference
United States	100	0	“vocalized”
United Kingdom	19	81	“vocalised”
India	62	38	“vocalized”
Philippines	100	0	“vocalized”
Canada	100	0	“vocalized”
Australia	0	100	“vocalised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	100	“vocalised”
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
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.

“vocalized”

…and his son GRMT (possibly vocalized as "Girmai") are known through…
…"In Your Belief" while the vocalized version was sung by Tomoyo
…croaking auk auk auk is vocalized by males while in the…
…mentioned with his son ZQRNS (vocalized as "Zaqarnas") in an inscription…
…prayer-book (Venice, 1696) and a vocalized edition of the Mishnah with…
…was written by her and vocalized, and used by a famous…
…award ceremony to feature a vocalized version of the Awards' theme…
In certain positions, laryngeals were vocalized to *i.
…for all projects working with vocalized Hebrew text until 2003, when…
…grammatical form that would be vocalized as 'iẓur is known for…

“vocalised”

…by the correctors (and remain vocalised melek in the received text).
Many of his songs were vocalised and music directed by Pandit…
…usage of extended vocabulary, are vocalised.
…singing career aside from his vocalised performance; for a time, the…
…Allan Poe and (in the vocalised "googoogajoob"s) James Joyce.
…responsible government began to be vocalised, led by the influential editor…
…-e is sometimes to be vocalised, and sometimes to be silent;…
…song's 1960s references, including the vocalised "oh yeah"s and the subtle…
is not vocalised, except historically; usually "clear" as…
When it is vocalised, most scholars pronounce it as…

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