rack, wrack

Rack or rack means a frame or support for storing or displaying things--
You can hang your coat on the rack.




Rack also means to torture or cause pain--
He had to rack his brains to remember the password.

Wrack or wrack ( rhymes with rack ) means ruin or destruction--

The storm left nothing but wrack and ruin.
Wrack also means seaweed or debris cast up on the shore--
The wrack made it difficult to walk along the shoreline.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Let's start on this scene of wrack and ruin by hanging the clothes on the rack."

Note--"racked" ( ract ) is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) of "rack", meaning to line up on or in a rack--
He racked the balls before starting the pool game.
Not to be confused with "racket" ( rack--ett ), meaning a lot of noise--
Tell them to stop that racket!
Racket may also mean a kind of bat or paddle used in some sports--
He forgot his tennis racket, so he went home to get it.