rating

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/, [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ

Verb

rating

1. present participle and gerund of rate

Noun

rating (plural ratings)

1. A position on a scale.
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.

   They have a poor credit rating.

   • 2015 September 30, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “How the Better Business Bureau rakes in millions”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this rating system – a key part of what the organization’s reputation is built on – is seriously flawed, with more than 100 companies in hot water with government agencies receiving A ratings

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.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:

     A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.

5. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
   • 2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire‎^[2]:

     Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.

6. (nautical, 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.

   • 1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149:

     Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope

Derived terms

• able rating
• age rating
• Elo rating
• gross vehicle weight rating
• Hooperating
• hourly rating
• nonrating
• octane rating
• output rating
• Q rating
• target rating point

Translations

position on a scale

• Bulgarian: класи́ране n (klasírane)
• Finnish: luokitus (fi)
• French: notation (fr) f
• Persian: درجه‌بندی (daraje-bandi)
• Portuguese: marca (pt)
• Spanish: calificación (es) f, clasificación (es) f

evaluation of status

• Armenian: վարկանիշ (hy) (varkaniš), ռեյտինգ (hy) (ṙeyting) (colloquial)
• Azerbaijani: reytinq (az)
• Belarusian: рэ́йтынг m (réjtynh)
• Bulgarian: ре́йтинг m (réjting)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評級 / 评级 (zh) (píngjí), 分級 / 分级 (zh) (fēnjí), 級別 / 级别 (zh) (jíbié)

• Finnish: luokitus (fi)
• French: notation (fr) f, évaluation (fr) f, rating (fr) m
• Georgian: რეიტინგი (reiṭingi)
• German: Rating (de) n
• Hungarian: rangsorolás (hu), értékelés (hu)
• Icelandic: einkunn f
• Japanese: レイティング (reitingu), 評価 (ja) (ひょうか, hyōka), 格付け (ja) (かくづけ, kakuzuke), 等級 (ja) (とうきゅう, tōkyū)
• Kazakh: рейтинг (reitiñ)
• Korean: 순위(順位) (ko) (sunwi), 레이팅 (reiting), 평가(評價) (ko) (pyeongga), 등급(等級) (ko) (deunggeup)
• Latin: taxātiō f
• Latvian: novērtējums m
• Macedonian: рејтинг m (rejting)
• Russian: ре́йтинг (ru) m (rɛ́jting)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рејтинг m

  Latin: rejting m

• Spanish: calificación (es) f
• Ukrainian: ре́йтинг m inan (réjtynh), оці́нка (uk) f inan (ocínka)

mark that refers to the ability of something

• Armenian: վարկանիշ (hy) (varkaniš)
• Czech: hodnocení (cs) n, ohodnocení n
• Finnish: luokitus (fi)
• Italian: punteggio (it), valutazione (it)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рејтинг m

  Latin: rejting m

• Spanish: calificación (es), evaluación (es), clasificación (es) f

seaman in a warship

• Finnish: merisotilas, merimies (fi)
• Hebrew: חוֹגֵר (he) m (khoger)

status of a seaman

• Finnish: luokitus (fi)
• Hebrew: דֵּרוּג (he) m (derug)
• Irish: grád m
• Portuguese: patente (pt) f

Anagrams

• Gartin, Tigran, gratin, taring, tringa

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ratingubor.

Polish rating

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛj.tiŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛjtiŋk
• Syllabification: ra‧ting

Noun

rating m inan (related adjective ratingowy)

1. (finance) credit rating (estimate used by creditors to determine maximum amount of credit)
2. popularity rating (evaluation of status)

Declension

Declension of rating

	singular	plural
nominative	rating	ratingi
genitive	ratingu	ratingów
dative	ratingowi	ratingom
accusative	rating	ratingi
instrumental	ratingiem	ratingami
locative	ratingu	ratingach
vocative	ratingu	ratingi

Further reading

• “rating”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “rating”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐj.tĩɡ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐj.tĩɡ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.tĩɡ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.tĩɡ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.tĩɡ/

Noun

rating m (plural ratings)

1. (finance) credit rating (an evaluation of status, especially of financial status)

   agências de rating ― credit rating agencies

2. (television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)

Further reading

• “rating”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “rating”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Noun

rating n (plural ratinguri)

1. rating

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rating	ratingul	ratinguri	ratingurile
genitive-dative	rating	ratingului	ratinguri	ratingurilor
vocative	ratingule		ratingurilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreitin/ [ˈrei̯.t̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -eitin
• IPA^(key): /ˈratin/ [ˈra.t̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -atin
  • Syllabification: ra‧ting

Noun

rating m (plural ratings)

1. (nautical) class (of boat)
2. (television) popularity rating

Further reading

• “rating”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Uncertainties] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “rating”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA