Definitions for percentile

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percentile per·cen·tile

Spelling: [per-sen-tahyl, -til]

IPA: /pərˈsɛn taɪl, -tɪl/

Percentile is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 443 anagrams from letters in percentile (ceeeilnprt).

Definitions for percentile

noun

1. one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies:

adjective

1. of or relating to a percentile or a division of a distribution by percentiles.

Origin of percentile

First recorded in 1880-85; percent + -ile

Examples for percentile

In height he gained from the 25 percentile to the 40 percentile.

A state in the 90th percentile (with the least amount of hate crimes) was given 20 points.

Really well, actually—in the 97th percentile on reading comprehension and the 87th in math.

These differentials, he writes “places the average black at roughly the 16th percentile of the white IQ distribution.”

A state in the 90th percentile (with the least amount of complaints filed) was given 20 points.

The new measure is a relative measure, pegged to (approximately) how much the 33rd percentile is spending on various things.

In other words, the lengths of the individual vectors denote the percentile rle that each night played in the total density.