rankings

noun

plural of ranking
1
as in hierarchies
a scheme of rank or order in one ranking of the best places to live, San Francisco surpassed all the other cities in the U.S.

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Relevance
2
as in ranks
the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement the President's ranking in the polls is at its highest level since he took office

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Recent Examples of rankings Texas dominated many national rankings in the report as well, with the ZIP code encompassing the Dallas suburb of Crandall ranking second on the list and a more urban Dallas ZIP code ranking 10th. — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rankings
  1. hierarchies
  2. ranks
  3. ladders
  4. levels
  5. scales
  6. positions
  7. series
  8. echelons
Noun
  • Depending on the club, the hierarchies are still clear, and there might be little overlap between those positions.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • While mapping these structural hierarchies is a foundational data modeling challenge, the piece that most organizations completely underestimate is the dynamic signal layer.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of hierarchies
Noun
  • The team also traded away Luis Arraez and Heliot Ramos for prospects, further thinning their ranks.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon join the ranks of iconic observatories like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes – plumbing the far reaches of the cosmos to answer some of life's greatest mysteries.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of ranks
Noun
  • Additionally, local fire department ladders only reached a height of 100 feet, CW affiliate WGN and WBC reported at the time.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The city studies the problem and eventually installs a few more ladders and a few more life rings — genuinely useful, and genuinely insufficient.
    — Joseph V. Sakran, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of ladders
Noun
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 both closed at their lowest levels in nearly two weeks.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Biden raised troop levels there to about 100,000, backed by seven fighter squadrons, six destroyers, and roughly 100 nuclear gravity bombs.
    — JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of levels
Noun
  • Because the amount of charge scales with how far a drop slides and the coating’s ability to resist scales with its thickness, the effect has a limit.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
  • That gives the partnership a route from materials research and experimental manufacturing toward processes that could eventually be demonstrated at production-relevant scales.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of scales
Noun
  • Those positions remain in flux and negotiations between Assembly members, state senators and Newsom are ongoing, Assembly Natural Resources Committee Chair Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, said.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The precedent for what happens when that capital moves quickly is March 2020, when a rapid unwind of leveraged positions contributed to a breakdown of Treasury-market liquidity severe enough to require Federal Reserve intervention.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of positions
Noun
  • Four batters into Monday night’s series opener against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Chicago Cubs had their first home run, a two-run blast off the bat of Tyrone Taylor.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • This article is part of the Business of Influence series, examining the inner workings of content creation and how the industry is set to change in the years to come.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of series
Noun
  • Some of them have brought conspiracy theories into the highest echelons of government.
    — Matthew N. Hannah, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
  • If the Bruins want to compete with the upper echelons of the Big Ten, West needs to build on his success last season.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of echelons

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“Rankings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rankings. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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