percentile

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

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

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntaɪl

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.

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.

• %ile

• centile

• quantile

• (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/ (100), millile (1000)

• percentile dice
• percentile rank

• pencil tree

From percento +‎ -ile.

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

percentile m (plural percentili)

1. (statistics) percentile