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"rank" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often status (6 letters).
Definitions
Position in an ordered scale, grade, or hierarchy; also strong and unpleasant in smell.
Word origin
From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Used in a sentence
“rank grass”
“rank weeds”
“And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Ordered position”4 letters
02“Position in order”4 letters
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