percentil

/[peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,253

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

percentil is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il].

Key facts for percentil
PropertyValue
Headwordpercentil
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il]
Letters9
Frequency rank#83,253
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of percentil in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for percentil is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for percentil in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is percentil, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 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

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,253 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "percentil"?
"percentil" is spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il].
What does "percentil" mean?
As a noun, "percentil" means: 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 ...
How do you pronounce "percentil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "percentil" is [peɾsẽn̪ˈt̪il]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "percentil" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.