percentage

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
• (Philippine, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age

• Audio (US)

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Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

e.g. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

• For sports statistics, percentages are mostly expressed in American and Canadian English as proportions of up to three decimal places and are read as if they were whole numbers.

e.g. (0).500 denotes five hundred, not 50% or 50 per cent.

Derived terms

• baker's percentage
• field goal percentage
• free throw percentage
• on-base percentage
• percentage point
• percentage rate
• percentagewise
• slugging percentage
• subpercentage

 

Related terms

• percent
• percentile
• permillage
• permyriad

Translations

part of a whole

• Arabic: النِّسْبَة الْمِئَوِيَّة‎ f (an-nisba l-miʔawiyya)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: portzentaje, ehuneko
• Belarusian: працэ́нт m (pracént), адсо́так m (adsótak)
• Bulgarian: част (bg) f (čast), процент (bg) m (procent)
• Burmese: ရာခိုင်နှုန်း (my) (rahkuinghnun:), ခိုင်နှုန်း (my) (hkuinghnun:)
• Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百分比 (zh) (bǎifēnbǐ), 百分率 (zh) (bǎifēnlǜ)

• Czech: procento (cs) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: protsent
• Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), prosenttiluku (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• Galician: porcentaxe
• Georgian: პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi)
• German: Prozentsatz (de) m, Hundertsatz m, Vomhundertsatz m
• Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó), εκατοστιαία αναλογία f (ekatostiaía analogía)
• Hindi: प्रतिशतता f (pratiśattā)
• Ido: procento (io)
• Indonesian: persentase (id)
• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Japanese: 百分率 (ひゃくぶんりつ, hyakubunritsu), パーセンテージ (pāsentēji), 百分比 (ja) (ひゃくぶんひ, hyakubunhi)
• Khmer: ចំនួនភាគរយ (châmnuŏnphéakrôy)
• Korean: 백분율 (ko) (baekbunyul), 백분비 (ko) (baekbunbi), 퍼센티지 (peosentiji)
• Malay: peratusan
• Maori: ōrautanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: процент (procent)
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) percentagem (pt) f, (Brazil) porcentagem (pt) f
• Russian: проце́нт (ru) m (procént), проце́нтное отноше́ние n (procéntnoje otnošénije)
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
• Swedish: procentsats (sv) c, procenthalt c, andel (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabahagdanan
• Thai: อัตราร้อยละ (àt-dtraa-rɔ́ɔi-lá)
• Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok)
• Vietnamese: số phần trăm, tỷ lệ phần trăm
• Walloon: porcintaedje (wa) m, porcint (wa) m

share of the profits

• Bulgarian: дял (bg) m (djal)
• Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
• Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), osuus (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• Georgian: პროცენტული წილი (ṗrocenṭuli c̣ili), პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi)
• German: prozentualer Anteil m, Hundertteil m, Hundertanteil m
• Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó)
• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) percentagem (pt) f, (Brazil) porcentagem (pt) f
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
• Tagalog: kabahagdanan
• Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok), до́ля (uk) (dólja)
• Walloon: porcintaedje (wa) m

informal: advantage

• Finnish: hyöty (fi)
• Polish: korzyść (pl) f

Dutch

Alternative forms

• procentage (archaic)

Etymology

From percent +‎ -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛr.sɛnˈtaː.ʒə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: per‧cen‧ta‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

percentage n (plural percentages)

1. percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: persentase