percentile

English

Etymology

Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent +‎ -ile.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pər-sĕnʹ-tīl, IPA^(key): /pəɹˈsɛn.taɪl/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛn.taɪl/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛntaɪl

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.

   She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile.

Usage notes

When comparing performance, a higher percentile is better; to be in the "90th percentile" is to have performed better than 90% of the rest of the group.

Synonyms

• %ile

• centile

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), millile (1000)

Derived terms

• percentile dice
• percentile rank

Translations

any of the ninety-nine points

• Czech: procentil m
• Danish: percentil c
• Estonian: protsentiil
• Finnish: persentiili (fi)
• German: Perzentil (de) n
• Indonesian: persentil (id)
• Italian: percentile (it) m
• Macedonian: перцентил m (percentil)
• Portuguese: percentil m
• Russian: перцентиль (ru) m (percentilʹ), центиль (ru) m (centilʹ), процентиль (ru) m (procentilʹ)
• Spanish: percentil m
• Swedish: percentil (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabahagdanin

any one of the hundred groups so divided

• Czech: procentil m
• Danish: percentil c
• Estonian: protsentiil
• Finnish: persentiili (fi)
• German: Perzentil (de) n
• Indonesian: persentil (id)
• Italian: percentile (it) m
• Portuguese: percentil m
• Russian: перцентиль (ru) m (percentilʹ), центиль (ru) m (centilʹ), процентиль (ru) m (procentilʹ)
• Swedish: percentil (sv)
• Tagalog: kabahagdanin

Anagrams

• pencil tree

Italian

Etymology

From percento +‎ -ile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /per.t͡ʃenˈti.le/
• Rhymes: -ile
• Hyphenation: per‧cen‧tì‧le

Noun

percentile m (plural percentili)

1. (statistics) percentile