ranking

See also: Ranking and ránking

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

Verb

ranking

1. present participle and gerund of rank

Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
2. Superior in rank.
   • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176:

     Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

3. Prominent or outstanding.
   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Inner Mongolia”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎^[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188, column 1:

     In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought.

   • 1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 48:

     But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]

Derived terms

• high-ranking
• top-ranking

 

Translations

having a specified rank

• Dutch: geplaatst (nl)
• Finnish: arvoinen (fi)
• French: classement (fr) m
• Hiligaynon: matáas
• Portuguese: classificação (pt) f

superior in rank

• Bulgarian: старши (bg) (starši)
• Dutch: superieur (nl), beter (nl)
• Finnish: ylempi (fi), ylin (fi)
• French: supérieur (fr)
• Hiligaynon: matáas
• Lithuanian: aukštesnis (lt)
• Portuguese: superior (pt)
• Spanish: superior (es)

Noun

ranking (plural rankings)

1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Derived terms

• rug ranking
• stack ranking

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: rànquing
• → Danish: ranking
• → German: Ranking
• → Japanese: ランキング (rankingu)
• → Korean: 랭킹 (raengking)
• → Polish: ranking
• → Portuguese: ranking
• → Russian: рэ́нкинг (rɛ́nking)
• → Spanish: ranking, ránking
• → Swedish: ranking

Translations

placement in a list

• Catalan: rànquing m, classificació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排名 (zh) (páimíng), 排行 (zh) (páiháng)

• Dutch: klassement (nl) n, rang (nl) m, plaats (nl) f, rangschikking (nl) f, ranking (nl) f
• Finnish: sijoitus (fi)
• French: classement (fr) m
• Galician: clasificación (gl) f
• German: Rangordnung (de) f, Rangfolge (de) f, Ranking (de) n
• Greek: κατάταξη (el) f (katátaxi), ταξινόμηση (el) f (taxinómisi)
• Indonesian: peringkat (id)
• Japanese: 順位 (ja) (じゅんい, jun'i), 格付け (ja) (かくづけ, kakuzuke), ランキング (ja) (rankingu), 番付 (ja) (ばんづけ, banzuke)
• Korean: 순위(順位) (ko) (sunwi), 랭킹 (ko) (raengking)
• Malay: kedudukan (ms)
• Polish: ranking (pl) m, klasyfikacja (pl)
• Portuguese: classificação (pt) f
• Russian: ранжи́рование (ru) n (ranžírovanije), рэ́нкинг (ru) m (rɛ́nking), классифика́ция (ru) f (klassifikácija)
• Spanish: clasificación (es) f, ranking m, rankeo (es) m (United States), ranqueo (es) m (United States), tabla clasificatoria f, escalafón (es) m, ranquin m

Anagrams

• narking

Basque

Alternative forms

• rankin (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rankin/, [rãŋ.kĩn]

Noun

ranking inan

1. ranking

Declension

Declension of ranking (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	ranking	rankinga	rankingak
ergative	rankingek	rankingak	rankingek
dative	rankingi	rankingari	rankingei
genitive	rankingen	rankingaren	rankingen
comitative	rankingekin	rankingarekin	rankingekin
causative	rankingengatik	rankingarengatik	rankingengatik
benefactive	rankingentzat	rankingarentzat	rankingentzat
instrumental	rankingez	rankingaz	rankingez
inessive	rankingetan	rankingean	rankingetan
locative	rankingetako	rankingeko	rankingetako
allative	rankingetara	rankingera	rankingetara
terminative	rankingetaraino	rankingeraino	rankingetaraino
directive	rankingetarantz	rankingerantz	rankingetarantz
destinative	rankingetarako	rankingerako	rankingetarako
ablative	rankingetatik	rankingetik	rankingetatik
partitive	rankingik	—	—
prolative	rankingtzat	—	—

Further reading

• “ranking”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking, equivalent to ranken +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ran‧king

Noun

ranking f or m (plural rankings)

1. ranking, relative placement in a list

   De ranking van dit ziekenhuis is in verschillende lijstjes van verschillende kranten heel anders.

   The ranking of this hospital is very different in different lists of different newspapers.

2. ranking, classification

   In sporten als honkbal en basketbal worden in Amerika heel veel verschillende rankings bijgehouden.

   Many different rankings are maintained in America in sports such as baseball and basketball.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraŋ.kiŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋkiŋk
• Syllabification: ran‧king

Noun

ranking m inan

1. ranking (placement in a list)

   Synonym: gradacja

Declension

Declension of ranking

	singular	plural
nominative	ranking	rankingi
genitive	rankingu	rankingów
dative	rankingowi	rankingom
accusative	ranking	rankingi
instrumental	rankingiem	rankingami
locative	rankingu	rankingach
vocative	rankingu	rankingi

Derived terms

adjective

• rankingowy

 

Further reading

• ranking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ranking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.kĩ/ [ˈhɐ̃.kĩ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.kĩ/ [ˈhɐ̃.kĩ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.kĩ/ [ˈχɐ̃.kĩ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐ̃.kĩɡ/

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: classificação

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ranquin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrankin/ [ˈrãŋ.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -ankin

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: clasificación

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “ranking”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10