ranked choice
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "ranked-choice ballot; ranked-choice voting"
- "The results — on the 31-column spreadsheet that Ms. Quan held in her hands — testified to the power of finishing second in a ranked-choice election. […] Campaign strategists said Ms. Quan had taken advantage of a ranked-choice system that was used in Oakland for the first time."
- "The election was the first in Alaska to utilize ranked-choice voting, a system adopted by the state’s voters in 2020. […] Ranked choice is more efficient than holding a runoff election, and its backers insist that it offers a better reflection of voters’ preferences."