how to pronounce percent

/pəˈsɛnt/

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percent is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of percent in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… that might be 30 percent 20 fob said but …”

meaning of percent

Percent means a percentage of 100.

percent frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word percent occurs in english on average 29.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics percent can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that percent can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;