orangutan

1. 1.

   large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

   SynonymsorangorangutangPongo pygmaeus

   Broadergreat ape

   Part ofPongo

Other forms of orangutan

plural

orangutans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orangutan

What does orangutan mean?

orangutan means "large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits".

How many syllables are in orangutan?

orangutan has 4 syllables: o-ran-gu-tan. The stress falls on "ran". In IPA it is /ɔˈɹæŋətæn/.

What is another word for orangutan?

Close synonyms include orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orangutan a common word?

orangutan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.