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pagerank

pagerank noun: any of several ranks assigned to a web page by a search engine. Also the alternative letter-case form of PageRank.

Noun (1)

pagerank (plural pageranks)

  1. (broadly) Any of several ranks assigned to a web page by a search engine.

Proper noun capitalized: PageRank

PageRank

  1. (Internet) The algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages and other media on the Internet.

Noun (2) capitalized: PageRank

PageRank (plural PageRanks)

  1. (Internet) The rank of a page calculated by the PageRank algorithm.

Also used as

pagerank is also the alternative letter-case form of PageRank.

Forms of pagerank

pluralpageranks
pluralPageRanks

Origin of pagerank

Named after Google co-founder Larry Page (1973–) and, punningly, (web) page.

Questions about pagerank

What does pagerank mean?
Pagerank means any of several ranks assigned to a web page by a search engine.
What part of speech is pagerank?
Pagerank can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pagerank?
The plural of pagerank is pageranks.

Words near pagerank in the dictionary

  1. Pagenstecher thread
  2. Pagenstecher threads
  3. Pagenstecher's crow
  4. Pagenstechers
  5. pager
  6. pagerank
  7. pageranks
  8. pagers
  9. pages
  10. Pages Creek
  11. pages down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pagerank (page history and authors); PageRank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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