percentage point

noun

: one hundredth of a whole : percent

interest rates rose one percentage point from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent

Examples of percentage point in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Under state law, hand counts of ballots in 10% of each county’s precincts must be completed to verify election results when the margin of victory in a race is less than one percentage point. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2026

Goldman Sachs added another rate hike to its forecast on Wednesday, now expecting an additional quarter percentage point increase in March. — Michelle Fox,sean Conlon,hugh Leask, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026

Peltola is just over 1 percentage point short of the majority needed to win outright. — Camille Baker, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026

The annual inflation rate currently stands more than a percentage point above the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2%. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for percentage point

• adjoint
• anoint
• appoint
• checkpoint
• conjoint
• disjoint
• endpoint
• gunpoint
• midpoint
• nonpoint
• pinpoint
• standpoint