percentil
[peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il]
The verdict
“percentil” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #83,253 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,253
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percentil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “percentil” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for percentil is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,253 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for percentil in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is percentil, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-I-L.
Definition
- 1Medida 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
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); 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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Using “percentil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-C-E-N-T-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.