Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vigintile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vig-in-tile
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.

noun

Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

Example Sentences

"Chart 4 examines the changes in vigintile ( 1/20th or 5% ) for the SIMD and the domains between the 2006 and 2009 SIMD publications. Vigintiles are bands of 5%, ie vigintile 1 is the 5% most deprived and combining the first three vigintiles is the 15% most deprived datazones in Scotland. […] No datazone had a decrease in the vigintile category for either income or employment domain. The income domain had one datazone remaining in the same category, three datazones increasing by one vigintile category and one datazone increasing by two vigintiles."
"We categorised income into vigintiles by sex and cohort. […] In addition, we estimated the absolute income level of each vigintile by adjusting for inflation using the consumer price index with 2020 as the index year, and by calculating the within-vigintile mean income."

Etymology

From Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) + -ilis (adjective-forming suffix), equivalent to viginti- + -ile.

Inflected Forms

vigintiles (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

median (2-quantile) tercile tertile quartile pentile quintile sextile septile

Questions

What does vigintile mean?: Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.
Where does vigintile come from?: From Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) + -ilis (adjective-forming suffix), equivalent to viginti- + -ile.

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