percentil
Spanish, noun/peɾθenˈtil/
percentil is spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-I-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 82,716th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Percentil is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “percentile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Medida de posición usada en estadística que indica, una vez ordenados los datos de menor a mayor, el valor de…”.
What does percentil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepercentile
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Medida de posición usada en estadística que indica, una vez ordenados los datos de menor a mayor, el valor de la variable por debajo del cual se encuentra un porcentaje dado de observaciones en un grupo. Por ejemplo, el percentil 20 es el valor bajo el cual se encuentran el 20 % de las observaciones, y el 80 % restante son mayores
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of percentil
- percentiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce percentil?
- /peɾθenˈtil/
- [peɾ.θẽn̪ˈt̪il]
- /peɾsenˈtil/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to percentil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is percentil in Spanish?
percentil appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).