plural of ranking

The quality of being rank, of having a repulsive or pungent odor. / Exuberant or uncontrolled growth. / (obsolete) Exuberance, excessiveness. / (obsolete) Insolence.

Obsolete form of rank.

plural of ranke

plural of rankness

simple past tense and past participle of de-rank

Alternately arranged in two exactly opposite rows.

(politics, often attributively) Any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots.

Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files. / (idiomatic) Members of an organization who are not in leadership positions.

A specified position in a numbered series.