percent

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 119.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   10 percent off all swimwear this week!

2. noun A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).

   only a small percent attain the top ranks

3. noun One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
4. noun The percent sign, %.
5. noun An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
6. prepositional phrase Per hundred.

Similar words

per centum percentage pct billion ratio figure half proportion per portion

Often followed by

of in for to and were or per increase

Word family

per cent per cents percentage percentages percents