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How to spell rank
What it means: A line or row of people or things.
In a sentence: The soldiers stood in a straight rank during the parade.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as ranck or rnk.
Same family: ranking, ranked, ranker, rate, order. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb "rank" comes from an Old French word meaning a row or line of soldiers. Over time, its meaning expanded from placing people in lines to placing people or things in order of importance or quality.
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