Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

5 percenter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.93 in modern English

Syllables: 5 per-center
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.

Example Sentences

"Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona / 'Til the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him: / "You either build or destroy, where you come from?""

Etymology

The term refers to the movement's belief that only five percent of all people understand God and consider the Black man as superior to all, leaving eighty-five percent as slaves to a ten-percent elite conspiracy that rules the world.

Inflected Forms

5 percenters (plural) Five Percenter (alternative) Five-Percenter (alternative)

Questions

What does 5 percenter mean?: A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.
Where does 5 percenter come from?: The term refers to the movement's belief that only five percent of all people understand God and consider the Black man as superior to all, leaving eighty-five percent as slaves to a ten-percent elite conspiracy that rules the world.

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