percent
/pəˈsɛnt/
The verdict
“percent” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,158 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,158
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porcentaje.
Corpus desk
Index ES-percent · percent · Spanish
percent · rank #85,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Pentateuco
Nearest frequency peer: Pentateuco (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “percent”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- penitencias
penitencias
14,846 corpus weight
- Pensacola
Pensacola
14,845 corpus weight
- Pentateuco
Pentateuco
14,844 corpus weight
- percent
percent
14,843 corpus weight
- perdonaste
perdonaste
14,841 corpus weight
- perecen
perecen
14,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “percent” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percent |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pəˈsɛnt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “percent” en español
Rare enough to double-check
percent is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,158 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pəˈsɛnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
percent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is percent, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Porcentaje.
- 2Por ciento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, 31 percent of all U.S. military aircraft are drones, compared with just 5 percent in 2005.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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