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binturong

/ˈbɪn.tuˌɹɔŋ/noun

binturong is a noun meaning “A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-N-T-U-R-O-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of binturong is binturongs.

What does binturong mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia.

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

How do you pronounce binturong?

  • UK /ˈbɪn.t(j)ʊəˌɹɒŋ/
  • US /ˈbɪn.tuˌɹɔŋ/
  • US /-tju-/

Binturong has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of binturong

  • binturongs plural

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

How common is binturong?

Binturong appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).

Binturong in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense species of civet:

LanguageWords
Portuguesebinturong
Spanishmanturón

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does binturong come from?

Borrowed from Malay binturung.

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