rank
Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
Adjective 2 meanings
Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
“Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?”
complete, unmitigated, utter.
“rank nonsense”
Noun 4 meanings
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
“The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.”
One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
The value of a playing card.
“The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.”
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
Verb 4 meanings
To place abreast or in a line.
To have a ranking.
“Their defense ranked third in the league.”
To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
To take the rank of; to outrank.
Etymology
From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”).
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RANK at a glance
RANK has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (R 1 + A 1 + N 1 + K 5) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,321 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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