__ and file
The crossword clue "__ and file" is answered by RANK, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RANK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RANK answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RANK
Every other clue in this collection answered by RANK, most used first.
- File's partner - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Social standing - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Standing - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
- Put in order - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Position - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Military status - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Standing in the military? - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Captain, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Colonel or captain - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Military level - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Stinky - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- High degree. - used 8 times, most recently in 1966
- Relative position - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Relative standing - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Chessboard row - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Echelon - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Eminence. - used 7 times, most recently in 1965
- Foul - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Malodorous - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Army level - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Awful-smelling - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- File companion - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- File crosser - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- File's counterpart - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Foul-smelling - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Position in a hierarchy - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Status - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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- Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times
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