Standardisation or standardization?
In American English write standardization; in British and Commonwealth English, standardisation. standardisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of standardization”; standardization is a noun meaning “The act, process, or result of complying with a standard”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) standardization is about 3.9 times as common as standardisation.
What is the difference between standardisation and standardization?
| standardisation | standardization | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | The act, process, or result of complying with a standard The act, process, or result of establishing a standard | |
| Example | none recorded | The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who… |
| Forms | standardisations | standardizations |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˌstæn.də.daɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ /ˌstæn.dɚˌdɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ [ˌstɛən.dɚˌdɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩] |
| Region | UK | no label |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words | 1.2 times per million words |
Sources: standardisation and standardization 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 standardisation and standardization
standardization
- 1
The act, process, or result of complying with a standard
- 2
The act, process, or result of establishing a standard
The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot…
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, standardisation or standardization?
standardisation appears about once in every 3 million words; standardization 1.2 times per million words.
standardisation about once in every 3 million wordsstandardization 1.2 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 standardisation vs standardization?
“standardisation vs standardization” is searched about 20 times a month on Google (Bing reports no separate figure) in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“standardization vs standardisation”, “standardisation or standardization”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.