orangután
[oɾãŋguˈt̪ãn]
The verdict
“orangután” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,049 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,049
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Pongo spp.) nombre común de las especies del género Pongo, primates que habitan bosques tropicales de Borneo y Sumatra, pertenecientes a la Familia Hominidae, Orden Primates, junto con gorilas, ch...
Corpus desk
Index ES-orangutan · orangután · Spanish
orangután · rank #64,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,049
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH orchard
Nearest frequency peer: orchard (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “orangután”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- ondea
ondea
35,957 corpus weight
- onduladas
onduladas
35,956 corpus weight
- oprimiendo
oprimiendo
35,955 corpus weight
- orangután
orangután
35,952 corpus weight
- orchard
orchard
35,951 corpus weight
- Orduña
Orduña
35,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “orangután” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orangután |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oɾãŋguˈt̪ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “orangután” en español
Rare enough to double-check
orangután is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,049 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [oɾãŋguˈt̪ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Pongo spp.) nombre común de las especies del género Pongo, primates que habitan bosques tropicales de Borneo y Sumatra, pertenecientes a la Familia Hominidae, Orden Primates, junto con gorilas, ch...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for orangután, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is orangután, spelled O-R-A-N-G-U-T-Á-N.
Definition
- 1(Pongo spp.) nombre común de las especies del género Pongo, primates que habitan bosques tropicales de Borneo y Sumatra, pertenecientes a la Familia Hominidae, Orden Primates, junto con gorilas, chimpancés y el hombre, Homo sapiens.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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