Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise" or "-ize"

This sub-page of Manual of Style (spelling) is intended to be an extensive list of English-language words ending with the suffixes "-ise" or "-ize".

Words ending with "-ise" or "-ize"
The following is a list of common words sometimes ending with "-ise" (en-GB) especially in the UK popular press and "-ize" in American English (en-US) and  Oxford spelling (en-GB-oxendict; formerly en-GB-oed) as  used by the British Oxford English Dictionary, which uses the "-ize" ending for most of the same words as American English. Commonwealth countries follow British English, except Canada which follows American English spellings more closely.

Words always ending with "-ize"
The following words end with "-ize" in every variety of English:
 * assize
 * Belize
 * capsize
 * maize
 * prize
 * seize
 * size

Words always ending with "-ise"
The following words end with "-ise" in every variety of English:
 * advertise
 * advise
 * anise
 * anticlockwise
 * appraise
 * apprise
 * arise
 * chastise
 * circumcise
 * clockwise
 * comprise
 * compromise
 * concise
 * counterclockwise
 * demise
 * despise
 * devise
 * disguise
 * enterprise
 * excise
 * exercise
 * expertise
 * franchise
 * imprecise
 * improvise
 * incise
 * likewise
 * merchandise
 * otherwise
 * paradise
 * practise
 * praise
 * precise
 * premise
 * promise
 * revise
 * rise
 * supervise
 * surmise
 * surprise
 * televise
 * wise

The suffix "-wise" is never spelt "-wize", as in "spelling-wise, everything is good".