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Definitions: Ranker |
RankerNoun1. (British) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status. 2. (British) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ranker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
Crosswords: Ranker |
| English words defined with "ranker": Clouted brogues. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ranker" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Breton (one has to). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gentleman Ranker (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Ranker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Ranker" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ranker": ex-ranker, second-ranker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
guthy ranker | 8 |
search engine ranker | 7 |
site ranker | 4 |
ranker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ranker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ushtar i thjeshtë (private), oficer i dalë nga radhët e ushtarëve. (various references) | |
Arabic | ضابط صف (noncommissioned officer), جندي نفر (rating). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | редник (private, rating), войник (dogface, pongo, soldier, warrior), офицер издигнал се от редник. (various references) | |
Chinese | "较茂盛. (various references) | |
Danish | ranker. (various references) | |
Dutch | ranker. (various references) | |
Finnish | ranker. (various references) | |
French | ranker, simple soldat, officier sorti du rang. (various references) | |
German | Ranker. (various references) | |
Greek | ranker, έδαφος επί οξίνου υποστρώματος, βαθμοφόροσ στρατιώτησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חיל מן "שור". (various references) | |
Hungarian | közlegény (buck private, private, soldier, tommy). (various references) | |
Italian | ranker. (various references) | |
Korean | " 무성한. (various references) | |
Manx | sidoor cadjin, rhenkeyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankerray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ranker, 'Ranker'. (various references) | |
Romanian | soldat de rând (Tommy), ofiţer provenit din soldat de rând. (various references) | |
Russian | рядовой солдат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | redov (private), razvrstavač, oficir (officer). (various references) | |
Spanish | patatero. (various references) | |
Swedish | ranker (U soil), officer (liaison, officer). (various references) | |
Turkish | erbaş (non commissioned officer, noncom, noncommissioned officer, petty officer), er (buck private, man, private, private soldier, soldier), alaylı (biting, ironic, ironical, jeering, sarcastic, sardonic, sarky, tongue in cheek). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рядовий солдат, рядовий член. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lính thường sĩ quan xuất thân từ chiến sĩ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ranker": rankers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ranker": cranker, franker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ranker": frankers. (additional references) | |
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"Ranker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arnki, brancker, cranker, kanker, narker, rabkory, raeker, raker, rancar, raneer, raner, Raniero, Ranjen, ranke, Ranken, ranki, Ranku, rankur, Ranskar, ranveer, renkel, Reyker, Rineke, Rinka, Rinkel, Roncerel, Ronken, ronler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ranker" (pronounced ra"ngker) |
| 5 | r a" ng k er | rancor. |
| 4 | -a" ng k er | anchor, banker, canker, danker, hanker, tanker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | bunker, clunker, conquer, drinker, Dunker, freethinker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: raker, reran. | |
-2 letters: earn, kane, karn, kern, knar, nark, near, rake, rank, rare, rear. | |
-3 letters: ane, are, ark, ear, era, ern, err, kae, kea, ken, nae, ran. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, ka, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: cranker, franker, knarred, rankers. | |
+2 letters: crankier, darkener, forerank, frankers, hankerer, harkener, overrank, prefrank, snarkier. | |
+3 letters: corncrake, darkeners, foreranks, hankerers, harkeners, karabiner, overdrank, prankster, prefranks, preshrank, rainmaker, ransacker, remarking, reparking, reracking, riverbank. | |
+4 letters: bankroller, breakfront, cankerworm, corncrakes, cornerback, earmarking, handworker, karabiners, krugerrand, nutcracker, pawnbroker, perikaryon, pranksters, prefranked, printmaker, rainmakers, ransackers, retracking, ringbarked, riverbanks, undertaker, unremarked. | |
+5 letters: aerobraking, bankrollers, breakfronts, cankerworms, cornerbacks, frankfurter, greenbacker, handworkers, heartbroken, krugerrands, merrymaking, nutcrackers, pawnbrokers, prefranking, printmakers, reembarking, remarketing, ringstraked, supertanker, undertakers, unearmarked, windbreaker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 6E 6B 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101110 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a n k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006E 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526780777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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