percentage

1. 1.

   a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

   Synonymspercentper centumpct

   Broaderproportion

   Narrowerabsentee rateoccupancy ratevacancy rateunemployment rate
2. 2.

   assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

   “he wanted his share in cash”

   Synonymsshareportionpart

   Broaderassets

   Narrowertranchedispensationdolewayrationallowanceslicesplitinterestprofit sharing

   Part ofnet income

Other forms of percentage

plural

percentages·

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 percentage

What does percentage mean?

percentage means "a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in percentage?

percentage has 3 syllables: per-cen-tage. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /pɚˈsɛntədʒ/.

What is another word for percentage?

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

percentage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.