percentage point
"percentage-point" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“percentage point” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percentage point |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “percentage point” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
percentage point is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for percentage point, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is percentage point, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E- -P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “percentage point”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E- -P-O-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.