percentile

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

centile

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