pisang

obsolete

pisang is a noun meaning “A banana or plantain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-S-A-N-G, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pisang is pisangs.

What does pisang mean?

noun

1
archaicA banana or plantain.

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

How common is pisang?

Pisang appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.

pisang0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

Where does pisang come from?

From Malay pisang.

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