Percentile vs. Percent — What's the Difference?

In statistics, a percentile (or a centile) is a score below which a given percentage of scores in its frequency distribution falls (exclusive definition) or a score at or below which a given percentage falls (inclusive definition). For example, the 50th percentile (the median) is the score below which (exclusive) or at or below which (inclusive) 50% of the scores in the distribution may be found.

Out of each hundred; per hundred.

Each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.

Pl. percent also per cent One part in a hundred

Any of the groups that result when a frequency distribution is divided into 100 groups of equal size.

Pl. percents A percentage or portion

Any of the values that separate each of these groups.

Percents Chiefly British Public securities yielding interest at a specified percentage.

(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.

Paying or demanding interest at a specified percentage

(statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).

One part per hundred; one percent.

The percent sign, %.

An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

A proportion multiplied by 100