Plural of percent
irregular plural
The plural of percent is percent or percents.
Forms of percent
| Singular | percent /pəˈsɛnt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | percent /pəˈsɛnt/ percents |
| Countable | countable |
Percents in a sentence
- picking up on a phrase that was used as early as 1752, Benjamin Disraeli famously referred to the “sweet simplicity of the three percents in his novel Endymion (1880) because of the reliable dividend this form of investment provided.2018, Nancy Henry, Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment, page 33
Meaning of percent
- adverb For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
- noun A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
- noun One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
Plural the same as the singular
Questions about the plural of percent
- What is the plural of percent?
- The plural of percent is percent or percents.
- Is percent countable?
- Percent is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: percent (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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