ranking

See also: Ranking and ránking

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋ/
  • (/æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [ˈɹeɪŋ.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 (countable and uncountable, plural rankings)

1. The placing of something in a list, for comparison with others.
2. (countable) One’s relative placement in a list, especially to indicate relative quality, size, success etc.
   • 2018 February 6, Paul R. La Monica, “Amazon worth more than Microsoft for first time”, in CNN Business‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 March 2025:

     Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) CEO Warren Buffett and Facebook's (FB) Mark Zuckerberg rank third and fourth in the world's richest rankings.

Derived terms

• midranking
• rug ranking
• stack ranking
• unranking

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 — see also classification

• 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: ranking m, rankeo (es) m, tabla clasificatoria f, escalafón (es) m

Anagrams

• narking

Basque

Alternative forms

• rankin (nonstandard)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English rankingubor.

Spanish rankingbor.

Basque ranking

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, an unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rankin/ [raŋ.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -ankin, -in
• Hyphenation: ran‧king

Noun

ranking inan

1. ranking

Declension

Declension of ranking (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	ranking	rankinga	rankingak	rankingok
ergative	rankingek	rankingak	rankingek	rankingok
dative	rankingi	rankingari	rankingei	rankingoi
genitive	rankingen	rankingaren	rankingen	rankingon
comitative	rankingekin	rankingarekin	rankingekin	rankingokin
causative	rankingengatik	rankingarengatik	rankingengatik	rankingongatik
benefactive	rankingentzat	rankingarentzat	rankingentzat	rankingontzat
instrumental	rankingez	rankingaz	rankingez	rankingotaz
inessive	rankingetan	rankingean	rankingetan	rankingotan
locative	rankingetako	rankingeko	rankingetako	rankingotako
allative	rankingetara	rankingera	rankingetara	rankingotara
terminative	rankingetaraino	rankingeraino	rankingetaraino	rankingotaraino
directive	rankingetarantz	rankingerantz	rankingetarantz	rankingotarantz
destinative	rankingetarako	rankingerako	rankingetarako	rankingotarako
ablative	rankingetatik	rankingetik	rankingetatik	rankingotatik
partitive	rankingik	—	—	—
prolative	rankingtzat	—	—	—

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ran‧king

Noun

ranking f or m (plural rankings, no diminutive)

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^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ranking”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

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

Further reading

• “ranking”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ranking”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrankin/ [ˈrãŋ.kĩn], /ˈreinkin/ [ˈrẽĩŋ.kĩn]
  • Rhymes: -ankin, -einkin
• IPA^(key): /ˈrankinɡ/ [ˈrãŋ.kĩŋɡ], /ˈreinkinɡ/ [ˈrẽĩŋ.kĩŋɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ankinɡ, -einkinɡ
• IPA^(key): /ranˈkinɡ/ [rãŋˈkĩŋɡ]
  • Rhymes: -inɡ
• Syllabification: ran‧king

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Alternative forms: ranquin, rankin, ránking

   Synonyms: clasificación, rankeo

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “ranking”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “ranking”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA