Captain, e.g.
The crossword clue "Captain, e.g." is answered by RANK, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 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 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 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
- __ and file - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- "Moby-Dick" captain - AHAB, used 139 times
- Melville captain - AHAB, used 110 times
- Verne captain - NEMO, used 101 times
- Nautilus captain - NEMO, used 88 times
- Pequod captain - AHAB, used 69 times
- Jules Verne captain - NEMO, used 50 times
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