The bottom quintile
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As someone has already said, bottom fifth.
If it helps remember it, if it ends in -ile it's a quantile, where you divide the group into that number of equal portions. See also (per)centile.
You can imagine actual tiles:
Quin-, five tiles, each being 1/5 or 20% of the whole.
Venti-, twenty tiles, each being 1/20 or 5%.
Cent-, hundred tiles, 1/100 or 1%.
The only one you're ever likely to see that's not a tile is decile which is hard to get wrong. You just have to know how to count in Latin.
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