per centum

Questions about per centum

What does per centum mean?

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

What is another word for per centum?

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

per centum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.