rankings
USRANG-kingz/ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋz/UKRAN-kingz/ˈɹæn.kɪŋz/
- 1Plural of ranking.
The university dropped several places in this year's global rankings.
Analysts questioned how the magazine compiled its annual rankings.
Note
Only the noun can take this ending. Ranking is also the present participle of rank and an adjective, as in a ranking officer or a high-ranking official, and neither of those uses has a plural. So rankings always means placements in a list. In the plural it often names the whole published order (the latest rankings), and it also works attributively, as in rankings table.
rankings is a form of ranking
ranking, noun: A person's or thing's position in a list relative to the others on it. Full entry
- Forms
- rankingrankings plural
- Spelling
- ranking → rankings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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