"rangy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone or something that is tall, lanky, and has a lot of reach or range. For example: "The rangy, 6-foot-tall basketball player had a long reach on the court, allowing him to guard players away from the basket."
The former kickboxer who still lives in his parents' Long Island basement – a virtual unknown roughly a year ago – is a competent, rangy boxer and underrated athlete who parlayed a win over Emmanuel Taylor into a junior welterweight title shot against Ruslan Provodnikov.
Tall, rangy and swing-armed like a dangerous ape, the fictional LBJ played by Bryan Cranston, a television star from such series as "Breaking Bad"—prowls the stage or growls into telephones, menacing enemies and friends alike.
The real ones had somehow got lost at boarding school, where the white world tried to civilise the rangy eight-year-old, born to a mother from the Black Sheep Clan and a father of the Sleeping Rock People.
Colin Farrell, bespectacled and potbellied, tamps down his usual rangy energy to play a loser who tragically pretends to be someone he's not; Olivia Colman has a minor but hilariously deadpan turn as the hotel manager.
To technicians of verse, he invented a kind of baggy, rangy vers libre, both lyrical and demotic, that has been the hallmark of much American writing ever since.
A rangy middleweight, he fought in Cameroon and Senegal.
A rangy midfielder, he had exceptional upper body strength and footwork skills that were complemented by his superior field vision.
The product of four years' work, Pete Carroll and the Seattle defence deserve all the credit they get – dominant up front, flawless on the back end and with rangy all-down linebackers – the unit is now in consideration for the best ever and it's a case that's hard to argue against following the total domination of the highest scoring in NFL history on the grandest stage of them all.
Unbeaten in 20 contests, will the tall and rangy 30-year-old New Yorker worry Pacquiao?
Deckle steak, the fattier end of rib-eye, is full of rangy, developing flavour.
Raonic unleashed his usual serving blitz but it was the rangy Canadian's groundstrokes that impressed the most as he outwitted the Swiss with a masterful display of clean hitting from the baseline.
