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orang

/ɔˈræŋ/noun

orang is a noun meaning “Clipping of orangutan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-A-N-G, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of orang is orangs.

What does orang mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalClipping of orangutan.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce orang?

  • /ɔˈræŋ/
  • /oʊˈræŋ/
  • /əˈɹæŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-orang.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of orang

  • orangs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is orang?

Orang appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).