percentage

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The English entry for percentage is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,122 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for percentage, with forms such as "eprcentage", "pecrentage", and "perccentage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "percentile", "parentage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is percentage, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.