percentile

English

Noun

percentile (plural percentiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
2. (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

   He is highly intelligent – he has an IQ in the top percentile.

Abbreviations

• %ile

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Derived terms

• percentile dice
• percentile rank

Synonyms

• centile

Translations

any of the ninety-nine points

• Czech: procentil m
• Estonian: protsentiil
• Finnish: persentiili
• German: Perzentil (de) n
• Italian: percentile (it) m

• Portuguese: percentil m
• Spanish: percentil m
• Swedish: percentil c
• Tagalog: kabahagdanin

any one of the hundred groups so divided

• Czech: procentil m
• Estonian: protsentiil
• Finnish: persentiili
• Italian: percentile (it) m

• Portuguese: percentil m
• Swedish: percentil
• Tagalog: kabahagdanin

Anagrams

• pencil tree

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Italian

Etymology

percento +‎ -ile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /per.t͡ʃenˈti.le/, [per̺t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪iːl̺e]
• Stress: percentìle
• Hyphenation: per‧cen‧ti‧le

Noun

percentile m (plural percentili)

1. (statistics) percentile