pct

Other forms of pct

plural

pcts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pct

What does pct mean?

pct means "a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)".

How many syllables are in pct?

pct has 1 syllable: pct.

What is another word for pct?

Close synonyms include percentage, percent, per centum. 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 pct a common word?

pct 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.