quantile
/ˈkwɒn.taɪl/noun
quantile is spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-L-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, quantile means “One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of quantile is quantiles.
How many letters and syllables are in quantile?
| Letters | 8: Q-U-A-N-T-I-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is quantile?
Quantile appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce quantile?
- /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-quantile.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of quantile
- quantiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quantile mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quantile in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quantile in statistics:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does quantile come from?
Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).