percentile

English

Noun

percentile (plural percentiles)

(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
(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 (fi)
German: Perzentil (de) n
Italian: percentile (it) m

Portuguese: percentil m
Spanish: percentil m
Swedish: percentil (sv) c
Tagalog: kabahagdanin

any one of the hundred groups so divided

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

Portuguese: percentil m
Swedish: percentil (sv)
Tagalog: kabahagdanin

Anagrams

pencil tree

Italian

Etymology

percento +‎ -ile

Pronunciation

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

Noun

percentile m (plural percentili)

(statistics) percentile

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