percentage

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
(Philippine, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
(informal) Benefit or advantage.
There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

e.g. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

For sports statistics, percentages are mostly expressed in American and Canadian English as proportions of up to three decimal places and are read as if they were whole numbers.

e.g. (0).500 denotes five hundred, not 50% or 50 per cent.

Derived terms

baker's percentage
field goal percentage
free throw percentage
on-base percentage
percentage point
percentage rate
percentagewise
slugging percentage
subpercentage

Related terms

percent
percentile
permillage
permyriad

Translations

part of a whole

Arabic: النِّسْبَة الْمِئَوِيَّة‎ f (an-nisba l-miʾawiyya)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: працэ́нт m (pracént), адсо́так m (adsótak)
Bulgarian: част (bg) f (čast), процент (bg) m (procent)
Burmese: ရာခိုင်နှုန်း (my) (rahkuinghnun:), ခိုင်နှုန်း (my) (hkuinghnun:)
Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 百分比 (zh) (bǎifēnbǐ), 百分率 (zh) (bǎifēnlǜ)
Czech: procento (cs) n
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: protsent
Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), prosenttiluku (fi)
French: pourcentage (fr) m
Galician: porcentaxe
Georgian: პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi)
German: Prozentsatz (de) m, Hundertsatz m, Vomhundertsatz m
Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó), εκατοστιαία αναλογία f (ekatostiaía analogía)
Hindi: प्रतिशतता f (pratiśattā)
Ido: procento (io)
Indonesian: persentase (id)
Italian: percentuale (it) f
Japanese: 百分率 (ひゃくぶんりつ, hyakubunritsu), パーセンテージ (pāsentēji), 百分比 (ja) (ひゃくぶんひ, hyakubunhi)
Khmer: ចំនួនភាគរយ (châmnuŏnphéakrôy)
Korean: 백분율 (ko) (baekbunyul), 백분비 (ko) (baekbunbi), 퍼센티지 (peosentiji)
Malay: peratusan
Maori: ōrautanga
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Ossetian: процент (procent)
Polish: procent (pl) m
Portuguese: (Portugal) percentagem (pt) f, (Brazil) porcentagem (pt) f
Russian: проце́нт (ru) m (procént), проце́нтное отноше́ние n (procéntnoje otnošénije)
Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
Swedish: procentsats (sv) c, procenthalt c, andel (sv) c
Tagalog: kabahagdanan
Thai: อัตราร้อยละ (àt-dtraa-rɔ́ɔi-lá)
Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok)
Vietnamese: số phần trăm, tỷ lệ phần trăm
Walloon: porcintaedje (wa) m, porcint (wa) m

share of the profits

Bulgarian: дял (bg) m (djal)
Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), osuus (fi)
French: pourcentage (fr) m
Georgian: პროცენტული წილი (ṗrocenṭuli c̣ili), პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi)
German: prozentualer Anteil m, Hundertteil m, Hundertanteil m
Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó)
Italian: percentuale (it) f
Polish: procent (pl) m
Portuguese: (Portugal) percentagem (pt) f, (Brazil) porcentagem (pt) f
Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
Tagalog: kabahagdanan
Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok), до́ля (uk) (dólja)
Walloon: porcintaedje (wa) m

informal: advantage

Finnish: hyöty (fi)
Polish: korzyść (pl) f

Dutch

Alternative forms

procentage (archaic)

Etymology

From percent +‎ -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌpɛr.sɛnˈtaː.ʒə/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: per‧cen‧ta‧ge
Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

percentage n (plural percentages)

percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)

Descendants

→ Indonesian: persentase