Personalised or personalized?
personalised is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of personalized”; personalized is an adjective meaning “Adapted to the needs of an individual”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) personalized is about 2.3 times as common as personalised.
What is the difference between personalised and personalized?
| personalised | personalized | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective, verb | adjective, verb |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of personalized | Adapted to the needs of an individual Embodied |
| Example | none recorded | Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words | 3.4 times per million words |
Sources: personalised and personalized 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 personalised and personalized
personalised
- 1
Alternative spelling of personalized
personalized
- 1
Adapted to the needs of an individual
Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized
- 2
Embodied
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, personalised or personalized?
personalised appears 1.5 times per million words; personalized 3.4 times per million words.
personalised 1.5 times per million wordspersonalized 3.4 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 personalised vs personalized?
“personalised vs personalized” is searched about 170 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“personalized vs personalised”, “personalised or personalized”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.