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

While its grocery segment saw mid-single-digit percentage point growth, health and wellness saw a low single-digit decline for the quarter. — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026

With voters ages 50+, Rogers took a nine-percentage point lead over El-Sayed at 52% to 43%. — Emily R. Condon, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

From then on, the share declined by about one percentage point a year through the arrival of video games, personal computers, the internet, and smartphones. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Destiny Alvarez, 30, a Coral Gables attorney of five years, avoided a runoff, ahead by just over 1 percentage point. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 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