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

That’s around a seven percentage point increase from 2023 for both metrics. —Bri Hatch, Chalkbeat, 26 Jan. 2026

The labor market has slowed in recent months, while inflation has hovered nearly a percentage point higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%. —Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2026

While the central bank is widely expected to keep its overnight rate unchanged, the market will look for clues on when its officials will cut rates, as traders are betting on two quarter percentage point cuts by the end of 2026, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. —Sean Conlon,fred Imbert, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

The prose looks polished, charts look clean, and a single percentage point buried in the model quietly pushes the decision in a different direction. —Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 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