"A person's value-judgments reveal something about how his Soul is STRUCTURED ".[Nietzsche BGE 268]

Nietzsche uses his formula 'Rangordnung' [sometimes 'Ordnung des Ranges'] consistently.In English translations it is variously treated as 'hierarchy', 'gradation', 'arrangement', and 'order of rank'.

Now while using varying epithets in various contexts may be ciorrect in English idiom [i.e., synonyms tend to be used to tease out shades of meaning] it is often detrimental to philosophical rigour.

holds to 'Rangordnung' more or less throughout 'Beyond Good and Evil', and indeed, that book itself seems to be primarily an exercise in applying that concept to as many things as possible.

A transliteration of 'Rangordnung' as 'Rankordering' is a little clumsy, but acceptable. Hollingdale is consistent in using 'order of rank' which is probably the best, as it has something of the Grand Style about it, and is recognisable as a formula which encapsulates a 'load' of meaning.'Rang' in German is from the same root as English 'rank'. However, the latter lacks the immediate sense also of 'ring', 'arena', 'circle'. Both 'ring' and 'rank' derive from the Old High German 'hring', - 'ring', referring to the gold rings given out by warriorlords as gifts of distinction. Beowulf is called a 'ring-giver' for example. I suspect that decorations of rank, medals etc., in the military derive from this - hence, 'ring/rank'.

So, rank must be thought in the widest and deepest sense.'Ordnung' is from the same root as 'order', which both derive from the Latin 'ordo', arrangement, group, class, an Ecclesiastical Order; akin to Latin 'ordiri', to lay the warp, to begin.'Order' is a primal Classical concept; 'Rank-Ordering' seems to combine the Classic and Nordic concepts in one - a Good European term if there ever was one.

So we can speak of Order of Rank in the most profound and exalted sense, and like Nietzsche, apply it to all aspects of life as a way of necessarily widening the Distances between things - as befits a philosophy of Nobilitas.