ranker

1. comparativecomparative form of rank: more rank

   As when a lion, rushing from his den, Amidst the plain of some wide-water’d fen, (Where numerous oxen, as at ease they feed, At large expatiate o’er the ranker mead)

   1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XV

plural rankers

1. countableOne who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
2. countableuncountableA kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
3. countablegovernmentA common soldier.
4. countableOne with a specified rank.

   Mike, as an adult chimpanzee, was a low ranker.

   2011, Derek Ellis, Sex, Food and Rank: In Humans and Animals, page 54

   3 more examples

   But the difference between the first ranker Maharashtra and the second ranker Tamil Nadu was so sharp that Tamil Nadu's value added was just 40 per cent of that of Maharashtra.

   2002, M. Naganthan, Tamil Nadu economy: trends and prospects, page 259

   I become Starr high ranker the next Sunday, setting a school record for reaching Fifth Level in the minimum amount of time.

   2012, Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

   When it comes to academics, you are a first ranker throughout.

   2015, Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and other Stories