one percent

1. 1.

   one part in a hundred equal parts

   Synonymsone-hundredthhundredth

   Broadercommon fraction

Questions about one percent

What does one percent mean?

one percent means "one part in a hundred equal parts".

What is another word for one percent?

Close synonyms include one-hundredth, hundredth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is one percent a common word?

one percent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.