Read, listen, and have fun with English numbers
percent
25% = twenty-five percent
How do you say 25% in English?
Read Percentages in English
Choose a value from 0 to 100, watch a ring and 100-square grid fill with colour, and practise saying percentages aloud.
Short answer
How do you read a percentage in English?
Read the number normally and add the word percent. For example, 25% is twenty-five percent and 100% is one hundred percent. For a decimal percentage, read each digit after the point before adding percent: 12.5% is twelve point five percent.
25%of 100
Every small square is 1%.
COLOUR 100 PARTS
Choose a percent and say it.
Percentage25%Say ittwenty-five percent
COMMON PERCENTAGES
Read the number, then add percent.
| Percentage | English | Listen |
|---|---|---|
| 0% | zero percent | |
| 0.5% | zero point five percent | |
| 1% | one percent | |
| 5% | five percent | |
| 10% | ten percent | |
| 12.5% | twelve point five percent | |
| 25% | twenty-five percent | |
| 33% | thirty-three percent | |
| 50% | fifty percent | |
| 75% | seventy-five percent | |
| 99% | ninety-nine percent | |
| 100% | one hundred percent |
OUT OF ONE HUNDRED
Four clues make percentages easy.
Percent means for every one hundred, so the symbol % always points back to 100 parts.
one percent
1% = one part of 100
fifty percent
50% = one half
decimal percent
twelve point five percent
FIVE-QUESTION PRACTICE
How do you say this percentage?
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QUICK ANSWERS
Three quick answers about percentages.
How do you say 25%?
Say twenty-five percent. It also represents twenty-five parts out of one hundred, or one quarter.
What does 100% mean?
One hundred percent means every part, or the whole amount.
Are percent and per cent both correct?
Percent is the common one-word spelling in American English. Per cent is also used in some British writing; both are read the same way.