What to Know. Favorite and favourite are two variant spellings of the same word with the exact same definition.Favorite without the "u" is the spelling used in the United States, while favourite is used in the rest of the English-speaking world. The "u" in favourite traces back to the influence of French on the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. More @Wikipedia
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