rank: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with R · ends with K
Meaning of rank
adj
Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
Example: Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
- emphatic, intensifier, negative
complete, unmitigated, utter.
Example: rank treason
- obsolete
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
Example: rank grass
- obsolete
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Example: rank land
Listed forms: ranker, rankest, ranck.
Source: Wiktionary — rank.
adv
- obsolete
Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
Listed forms: ranck.
Source: Wiktionary — rank.
noun
- countable, uncountable
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
Example: The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
- countable, uncountable
One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- countable, uncountable
The value of a playing card.
Example: The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
- countable, uncountable
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
Listed forms: ranks, ranck.
Source: Wiktionary — rank.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for rank.
adjective
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
adjective
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
noun
the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- rank and file
noun
position in a social hierarchy
- social station
- social status
- social rank
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is rank in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of rank
R(1) + A(1) + N(1) + K(5) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of rank
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from rank
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in rank. Showing up to 24, longest first.