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rating

  • /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/ UK
  • /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/ US
  • [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ] US

Rhymes with -eɪtɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of rate

noun ratings

  1. A position on a scale.
  2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status. They have a poor credit rating.
  3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something. He has a high chess rating.
  4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program. A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.
  5. A seaman in a warship. Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  6. UK An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer. In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: valuation, paygrade, evaluation, military rank, military rating, grading, ranking, status, factor, rationing, performance, skill, qualified, labelling, sorting, scheme

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noun status of a seaman

Portuguêspatente
עבריתדֵּרוּג derug

noun position on a scale

Españolcalificación, rating
Portuguêsmarca
Françaisnotation

noun evaluation of status

Españolcalificación, rating
한국어순위 sunwi, 레이팅 reiting, 평가 pyeongga, 등급 deunggeup
日本語レイティング reitingu, 評価 hyōka, 格付け kakuzuke, 等級 tōkyū
中文評級 /评级 píngjí, 分級 /分级 fēnjí, 級別 /级别 jíbié
Françaisnotation, évaluation, rating
DeutschRating
Русскийре́йтинг rɛ́jting

noun mark that refers to the ability of something

Españolcalificación, rating
Italianopunteggio, valutazione

noun seaman in a warship

עבריתחוֹגֵר khoger

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@misc{rating_2026,
  title = {rating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}