Fuzzy numbers represent fuzzy numeric values. However, it is difficult to clearly determine whether one fuzzy number is larger or smaller than other fuzzy numbers. Thus it is also difficult to determine the rank which a fuzzy number takes, or to select the k-th largest fuzzy number in a given set of fuzzy numbers. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy set based method to determine the rank of a fuzzy number and the k-th largest fuzzy number. The proposed method uses a given fuzzy greater-than relation which is defined on a set of fuzzy numbers. Our method describes the rank of a fuzzy number with a fuzzy set of ranks that the fuzzy number can take, and the k-th largest fuzzy number with a fuzzy set of fuzzy numbers which can be k-th ranked.