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png

/pɪŋ/

png is the alternative letter-case form of PNG.

Noun capitalized: PNG

IPA/ˌpiː ɛn ˈd͡ʒiː/

PNG (plural PNGs)

  1. A Portable Network Graphics file.
  2. (VTuber fandom slang) A spritesheet, in PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format, containing all sprites used for a VTuber's avatar.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of persona non grata.

Verb capitalized: PNG

IPA/ˌpiː ɛn ˈd͡ʒiː/

PNG (third-person singular simple present PNGs, present participle PNGing, simple past and past participle PNGed)

  1. (transitive) To declare someone a persona non grata.
    • After my cover blew up I was PNGed.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PNG

IPA/ˌpiː ɛn ˈd͡ʒiː/

PNG

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, file format) Initialism of Portable Network Graphics.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Papua New Guinea.
    • It is a great honour and privilege for me to address the participants of this conference – a landmark event taking place in PNG this month.2019 September, “RUSSIAN LOAN WORDS IN THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.”, in Miklouho-Maclay, page 1

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Png

Png

  1. A surname from Hokkien.

Forms of png

Noun
pluralpngs
pluralPNGs
Verb
third-person singular presentPNGs
present participlePNGing
past participlePNGed
pastPNGed

Origin of png

From Hokkien 方 (Png).

Words formed from png

Phrases with png

Words that rhyme with png

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Questions about png

What does png mean?
Png means a Portable Network Graphics file.
What is png the alternative letter-case form of?
Png is the alternative letter-case form of PNG.
What part of speech is png?
Png can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce png?
Png is pronounced /pɪŋ/.
What is the plural of png?
The plural of png is pngs.

Words near png in the dictionary

  1. pneumoventriculography
  2. pneumoviral
  3. pneumovirus
  4. pneumoviruses
  5. PNF
  6. png
  7. PNG Tuber
  8. pNGB
  9. PNGed
  10. PNGing
  11. pngs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: png (page history and authors); PNG (page history and authors); Png (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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