percentage: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 15 letter points · starts with P · ends with E
Meaning of percentage
noun
- countable, uncountable
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
Example: A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
- countable, uncountable
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
Example: She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- countable, informal, uncountable
Benefit or advantage.
Example: There was no percentage in staying at home.
Listed forms: percentages.
Source: Wiktionary — percentage.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for percentage.
noun
a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent
- percent
- per centum
- pct
noun
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is percentage in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of percentage
P(3) + E(1) + R(1) + C(3) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) + A(1) + G(2) + E(1) = 15 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of percentage
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from percentage
275 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in percentage. Showing up to 24, longest first.