Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for rank
Synonyms for rank: place, absolute and membership. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for rank
Interchangeable with rank in this sense
Audited under rank's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rank carries in that sense.
- placeverb, in the sense "assign a rank or rating to"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name rank as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- absoluteabsolute is an adjective in the sense "complete and without restriction or qualification"
- membershipmembership is a noun in the sense "the body of members of an organization or group"
one of these comes from rank's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
assign a rank or rating to
How would you rank these students?
The true synonym
place
Same sentence, swapped: How would you place these students?
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- outrank
- examine
- declare
Where rank turns up in the game
rank is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where rank is the trap
- indecentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unbecoming, in the sense "not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society", and rank is on the board beside it.
- sheeradjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is transparent, in the sense "so thin as to transmit light", so rank is there to be ruled out.
- graduateverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is calibrate, in the sense "make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring", so rank is there to be ruled out.
Play rank
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rank reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company rank keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rank carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.