tertile
noun
tertile is spelled T-E-R-T-I-L-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tertile means “Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tertile is tertiles.
How many letters and syllables are in tertile?
| Letters | 7: T-E-R-T-I-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tertile?
Tertile appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
What rhymes with tertile?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tertile.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: retitle.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tertile
- tertiles plural
- tercile
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tertile mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.
- 2
Any one of the three groups so divided.
The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tertile come from?
By surface analysis, tert- + -ile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).