per centum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum..."
- "Firearms, twenty-five per centum"
- "More than sixty per centum of the population of Australia is settled in the States along whose littoral the Lyrebird ranges[.]"
Etymology
Latin per + centum