How many syllables in percentile?

There are 3 syllables in the word percentile.

How to pronounce percentile:

percentile (noun):: a value on a scale of 100 that indicates the percent of a distribution that is equal to or below it; (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total.

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