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

Even as remote work has declined from its pandemic highs, the data shows nearly 22% of workers still worked at least partly from home in 2025, only 1 percentage point less than the number who partly worked from home during the year prior. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Evers won his two races for governor by just over 1 percentage point in 2018 and just over 3 points in 2022. — Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Collins, who has been in the Senate for nearly three decades, won her last election by over an 8 percentage point margin against Democrat Sara Gideon. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2026

Shopping around for mortgage interest rates has been shown to result in a rate that's around half a percentage point to a full percentage point below average. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 1 July 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