Customisation or customization?
customisation is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of customization”; customization is a noun meaning “The act of customizing something”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) customization is about 6.3 times as common as customisation.
What is the difference between customisation and customization?
| customisation | customization | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of customization | The act of customizing something |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | customisations | customizations |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words | 1.8 times per million words |
Sources: customisation and customization in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of customisation and customization
customisation
- 1
Alternative spelling of customization
customization
- 1
The act of customizing something
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, customisation or customization?
customisation appears about once in every 4 million words; customization 1.8 times per million words.
customisation about once in every 4 million wordscustomization 1.8 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search customisation vs customization?
“customisation vs customization” is searched about 70 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“customization vs customisation”, “customisation or customization”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.