rank

See also: Rank, ránk, and ränk

Translingual

Symbol

rank

1. (mathematics) The symbol for rank.

English

Alternative forms

• ranck (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæŋk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æŋk

Etymology 1

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”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker or more rank, superlative rankest or most rank)

1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
   1. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

      rank grass

      rank weeds

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:5:

        And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

      • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

        The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

      1. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

         rank land

         • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

           fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw

      2. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
         • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

           The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]

   2. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
      1. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

         Synonyms: stinky, smelly, (UK) pongy

         Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

         • 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

           Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.

      2. (informal) Gross, disgusting, foul.
2. (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.

   Synonyms: thorough, virulent

   rank treason

   rank nonsense

   I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

   • 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2019:

     England's domination of the first half was almost total, but they somehow contrived to allow Tunisia to raise themselves off the floor by virtue of rank carelessness from [Gareth] Southgate's side.

   • 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

     Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.

3. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     the ewes being rank,
     In end of autumn turned to the rams

Derived terms

• outrank
• ranken
• rankful

Translations

strong in growth

• Czech: bujný, bujně rostoucí
• Esperanto: trokreskinta Literally, “overgrown”
• German: geil (de) (archaic)
• Hungarian: burjánzó (hu), buja (hu), dús (hu), sűrű (hu)
• Irish: uaibhreach

having a very strong and bad odor

• Bulgarian: вонящ (bg) (vonjašt)
• Catalan: ranci
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腥 (zh) (xīng), 臭 (zh) (chòu)

• Dutch: stinkend (nl), rans (nl), ranzig (nl)
• Finnish: löyhkäävä (fi), lemuava (fi), haiseva (fi)
• French: malodorant (fr), rance (fr)
• Galician: rancio m
• German: stinkend (de)
• Greek: ταγγός (el) (tangós)
• Hungarian: orrfacsaró/penetráns (szagú), büdös (hu), bűzös (hu)
• Irish: borb
• Italian: puzzolente (it)
• Japanese: 臭い (ja) (くさい, kusai)
• Latin: rancidus
• Portuguese: rançoso (pt)
• Romanian: rânced (ro)
• Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), прого́рклый (ru) (progórklyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: breun
• Spanish: rancio (es)
• Swedish: stank (sv)
• Turkish: pis kokulu

highly offensive; disgusting

• Czech: odporný (cs), hnusný (cs)
• German: ekelhaft (de)
• Hungarian: visszataszító (hu), ocsmány (hu), undorító (hu), gusztustalan (hu)
• Italian: ripugnante (it), repellente (it)
• Portuguese: repugnante (pt)
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), ме́рзкий (ru) (mérzkij), омерзи́тельный (ru) (omerzítelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: breun
• Spanish: repugnante (es)
• Swedish: vämjelig (sv)
• Turkish: iğrenç (tr)

Adverb

rank (comparative more rank, superlative most rank)

1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […] .

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

     That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).

Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.

Noun

rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)

2. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.

   Antonym: file

   The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.

   • 1684, Richard Elton, The compleat body of the Art Military […] ‎^[2], 2nd edition, page 196:

     The Musketeers being on both flancks, firſt firing let the Ranck ſtand, and fire every Ranck, paſſing through before his leader […]

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs […] .

4. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).

   Antonym: file

5. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
6. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.

   Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.

   The fancy hotel was of the first rank.

8. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
9. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.

   a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen

   • 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer‎^[3]:

     Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them.

11. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

    Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.

    He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.

12. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

    Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

13. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
15. (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
16. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
17. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.

Derived terms

• back rank
• back-rank mate
• break rank
• cab off the rank
• cab rank
• cab-rank rule
• circuit rank
• close ranks
• coal rank
• de-rank
• flag rank
• full rank
• keep rank
• military rank
• ordinal rank
• other rank
• pull rank
• rank and file
• rank-and-file
• rank-and-filer
• rank and yank
• rank badge
• rank-deficient
• rank-nullity theorem
• rank of apparition
• rank outsider
• rank sum
• Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
• S rank
• stack rank
• taxi rank

 

Translations

row of people or things organized in a grid pattern

• Azerbaijani: cərgə (az)
• Bulgarian: ред (bg) m (red), реди́ца (bg) f (redíca)
• Dutch: gelid (nl) n, rij (nl) m or f
• Finnish: rivi (fi)
• Georgian: რიგი (rigi), მწკრივი (mc̣ḳrivi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ζυγόν n (zugón)

• Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ریز (rîz)

• Latin: gradus (la) m
• Macedonian: ред m (red)
• Maori: kapa
• Portuguese: fileira (pt) f, coluna (pt) f
• Russian: ряд (ru) m (rjad), шере́нга (ru) f (šerénga), коло́нна (ru) f (kolónna), ли́ния (ru) f (línija), строй (ru) m (stroj)
• Spanish: fila (es) f

set of pipes in an organ

• Dutch: register (nl) n, werk (nl) n
• French: registre (fr) m
• Swedish: verk (sv)

position based on a shared property

• Armenian: կարգ (hy) (karg), կոչում (hy) (kočʻum)
• Bulgarian: ранг (bg) m (rang)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秩 (zh) (zhì), 級／级 (zh) (jí)

• Esperanto: vico (eo)
• Finnish: sija (fi), sijoitus (fi), taso (fi), luokka (fi)
• French: rang (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rang (de) m; Dienstgrad (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 f (griþs)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τάξις f (táxis)

• Hindi: श्रेणी (hi) f (śreṇī)
• Irish: oireachas m
• Italian: rango (it) m, ceto (it) m, condizione sociale f
• Khmer: ចំណាត់ថ្នាក់ (cɑmnat thnak)
• Malay: pangkat (ms)
• Malayalam: റാങ്ക് (ml) (ṟāṅkŭ)
• Maranao: bansa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: رده (fa) (rade), رتبه (fa) (rotbe)
• Russian: класс (ru) m (klass), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), ранг (ru) m (rang), разря́д (ru) m (razrjád), катего́рия (ru) f (kategórija)
• Spanish: rango (es) m
• Swedish: klass (sv) c, placering (sv)
• Tamil: தரவரிசை (taravaricai)
• Tatar: дәрәҗә (tt) (däräcä)
• Thai: ยศ (th) (yót)
• Vietnamese: cấp (vi)
• Welsh: urdd m

level of one's position in a class-based society

• Bulgarian: ранг (bg) m (rang)
• Finnish: luokka (fi)
• French: rang (fr) m
• Korean: 랭크 (raengkeu)
• Maori: tupunga
• Swahili: cheo (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: rang (sv) c
• Turkish: sınıf (tr)
• Welsh: urdd m

hierarchical level in an organization

• Albanian: gradë (sq) f
• Arabic: رُتْبَة (ar) f (rutba)
• Armenian: կոչում (hy) (kočʻum)
• Azerbaijani: məqam (az), vəzifə (az), rütbə (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ранг m (ranh), чын m (čyn), зва́нне n (zvánnje), го́днасць f (hódnascʹ)
• Bengali: পদ (bn) (pod)
• Bulgarian: ранг (bg) m (rang), зва́ние (bg) n (zvánie), чин (bg) m (čin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍階／军阶 (zh) (jūnjiē) (military)

• Czech: hodnost (cs) f
• Danish: rang c
• Dutch: rang (nl) m
• Esperanto: rango (eo)
• Estonian: auaste
• Finnish: arvo (fi); sotilasarvo (fi) (military)
• French: rang (fr) m
• Georgian: წოდება (c̣odeba), ხარისხი (xarisxi), რანგი (ka) (rangi)
• German: Dienstgrad (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 f (griþs)
• Greek: βαθμός (el) m (vathmós)

  Ancient: τάξις f (táxis)

• Hindi: पद (hi) m (pad), श्रेणी (hi) f (śreṇī)
• Hungarian: rendfokozat (hu), rang (hu)
• Italian: grado (it) m, truppa (it) f, gregario (it), rango (it) m
• Japanese: 階級 (ja) (かいきゅう, kaikyū)
• Khmer: ថ្នាក់ (km) (thnak)
• Korean: 계급(階級) (ko) (gyegeup)
• Latin: gradus (la) m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: чин m (čin)
• Malay: pangkat (ms)
• Malayalam: പദവി (ml) (padavi)
• Maori: tūnga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rang (no) m

  Nynorsk: rang m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: чинъ m (činŭ)

• Ottoman Turkish: مرتبه (mertebe), پایه (paye)
• Persian: رتبه (fa) (rotbe)
• Polish: ranga (pl) f, stopień (pl) m, godność (pl) f
• Portuguese: posição (pt) f
• Romanian: grad (ro) n, rang (ro) n
• Russian: ранг (ru) m (rang), чин (ru) m (čin), зва́ние (ru) n (zvánije), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чи̑н m

  Roman: čȋn (sh) m

• Slovak: hodnosť f
• Slovene: čin m
• Spanish: grado (es) m
• Swedish: grad (sv) c, rang (sv) c
• Tajik: рутба (rutba)
• Thai: ยศ (th) (yót)
• Turkish: rütbe (tr), mertebe (tr), paye (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: ранг (uk) m (ranh), чин (uk) m (čyn), звання́ n (zvannjá)
• Uzbek: unvon (uz), rang (uz), rutba (uz) (dated, literary)
• Vietnamese: hàm (vi)

level in a taxonomy system

• Finnish: taso (fi)

maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix

• Catalan: rang (ca) m
• Finnish: aste (fi)
• Georgian: რანგი (ka) (rangi)
• Italian: rango (it)
• Polish: rząd (pl) m
• Russian: ранг (ru) m (rang)

dimensionality of an array or tensor

chess: one of the horizontal lines of squares

• Bulgarian: хоризонта́ла (bg) f (horizontála)
• Catalan: fila (ca) f
• Czech: řada (cs) f
• Danish: række (da) c
• Dutch: rij (nl) f
• Finnish: rivi (fi)
• French: rangée (fr) f
• German: Reihe (de) f
• Greek: λωρίδα (el) f (lorída)
• Hungarian: sor (hu)
• Italian: traversa (it) f
• Latvian: horizontāle f
• Lithuanian: horizontalė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rad (no) f

• Polish: rząd (pl) m
• Portuguese: fileira (pt) f
• Romanian: linie (ro) f
• Russian: горизонта́ль (ru) f (gorizontálʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ред m

  Roman: red (sh) m

• Slovak: rad m
• Slovene: vrsta (sl) f
• Spanish: fila (es) f
• Swedish: rad (sv) c
• Turkish: satır (tr)

in plural: category of people, such as those who share an occupation

• Finnish: rivit pl

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} rango (eo)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Platz (de) m, Reihe (de) f
• Italian: fila (it) f, schiera (it) f
• Polish: szeregi pl
• Turkish: sıra (tr)

Verb

rank (third-person singular simple present ranks, present participle ranking, simple past and past participle ranked)

1. To place abreast, or in a line.
2. To have a ranking.

   Their defense ranked third in the league.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLI, page 64:

     I vex my heart with fancies dim:
     ⁠He still outstript me in the race;
     ⁠It was but unity of place
     That made me dream I rank’d with him.

3. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

     Ranking all things under general and special heads.

   • 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.

   • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:

     Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.

   • 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:

     From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.

4. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Derived terms

• misrank
• outrank

Translations

place abreast or in a line

• Bulgarian: нареждам (bg) (nareždam), строявам (strojavam)
• Finnish: järjestää riviin
• French: ranger (fr)
• Portuguese: enfileirar (pt)

to have a ranking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排名 (zh) (páimíng), 名列 (zh) (míngliè)

• Finnish: sijoittaa (fi), sijoittua (fi), rankata (fi) (sports only)
• French: classer (fr)
• German: an einer Stelle stehen, rangieren (de)
• Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh)
• Portuguese: ranquear (pt)
• Spanish: clasificar (es), rankear (America), ranquear (es) (America)
• Swedish: gradera (sv), klassificera (sv), klassa (sv), placera (sv)
• Turkish: gelmek (tr)

assign a suitable place in a class or order

• Bulgarian: класифицирам (bg) (klasificiram)
• Finnish: luokitella (fi), (by calculating someone numerically) pisteyttää (fi)
• French: coter (fr)
• Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh)
• Italian: annoverare (it)
• Swedish: gradera (sv)

References

• “rank”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “rank”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• knar, ARNK, Karn, Kanr, kran, nark, karn

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑŋk/
• Hyphenation: rank
• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ranc, from Old Dutch *ranc, from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankst)

1. slender, svelte

Declension

Declension of rank
uninflected	rank
inflected	ranke
comparative	ranker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		rank	ranker	het rankst het rankste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	ranke	rankere	rankste
	n. sing.	rank	ranker	rankste
	plural	ranke	rankere	rankste
definite		ranke	rankere	rankste
partitive		ranks	rankers	—

Derived terms

• rankgebouwd

 

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch ranc, ranke, from Old Dutch *ranca, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Old High German hranca (German Ranke).

Noun

rank f (plural ranken, diminutive rankje n)

1. tendril, a thin winding stem
2. name of various vines
3. an object or ornamental pattern resembling a stem

Derived terms

• bosrank
• hechtrank
• ranken (verb)
• rankerig
• wijnrank

 

Anagrams

• karn

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German rank, ranc, from Old Saxon *rank, from Proto-West Germanic *rank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

rank (strong nominative masculine singular ranker, comparative ranker, superlative am ranksten)

1. (poetic, dated, except in the phrase rank und schlank) lithe, lissome

Declension

Positive forms of rank

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist rank	sie ist rank	es ist rank	sie sind rank
strong declension (without article)	nominative	ranker	ranke	rankes	ranke
	genitive	ranken	ranker	ranken	ranker
	dative	rankem	ranker	rankem	ranken
	accusative	ranken	ranke	rankes	ranke
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der ranke	die ranke	das ranke	die ranken
	genitive	des ranken	der ranken	des ranken	der ranken
	dative	dem ranken	der ranken	dem ranken	den ranken
	accusative	den ranken	die ranke	das ranke	die ranken
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein ranker	eine ranke	ein rankes	(keine) ranken
	genitive	eines ranken	einer ranken	eines ranken	(keiner) ranken
	dative	einem ranken	einer ranken	einem ranken	(keinen) ranken
	accusative	einen ranken	eine ranke	ein rankes	(keine) ranken

Comparative forms of rank

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist ranker	sie ist ranker	es ist ranker	sie sind ranker
strong declension (without article)	nominative	rankerer	rankere	rankeres	rankere
	genitive	rankeren	rankerer	rankeren	rankerer
	dative	rankerem	rankerer	rankerem	rankeren
	accusative	rankeren	rankere	rankeres	rankere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der rankere	die rankere	das rankere	die rankeren
	genitive	des rankeren	der rankeren	des rankeren	der rankeren
	dative	dem rankeren	der rankeren	dem rankeren	den rankeren
	accusative	den rankeren	die rankere	das rankere	die rankeren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein rankerer	eine rankere	ein rankeres	(keine) rankeren
	genitive	eines rankeren	einer rankeren	eines rankeren	(keiner) rankeren
	dative	einem rankeren	einer rankeren	einem rankeren	(keinen) rankeren
	accusative	einen rankeren	eine rankere	ein rankeres	(keine) rankeren

Superlative forms of rank

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am ranksten	sie ist am ranksten	es ist am ranksten	sie sind am ranksten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	rankster	rankste	rankstes	rankste
	genitive	ranksten	rankster	ranksten	rankster
	dative	rankstem	rankster	rankstem	ranksten
	accusative	ranksten	rankste	rankstes	rankste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der rankste	die rankste	das rankste	die ranksten
	genitive	des ranksten	der ranksten	des ranksten	der ranksten
	dative	dem ranksten	der ranksten	dem ranksten	den ranksten
	accusative	den ranksten	die rankste	das rankste	die ranksten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein rankster	eine rankste	ein rankstes	(keine) ranksten
	genitive	eines ranksten	einer ranksten	eines ranksten	(keiner) ranksten
	dative	einem ranksten	einer ranksten	einem ranksten	(keinen) ranksten
	accusative	einen ranksten	eine rankste	ein rankstes	(keine) ranksten

Related terms

• rahn

Verb

rank

1. singular imperative of ranken

Further reading

• “rank” in Duden online
• “rank” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache