Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hetero sapiens

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables: het-ero s-api-ens
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Collectively, straight people.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"Man and woman, I said? In this day and age, forget gender! The problem is even more poignant if we consider any combination of Homo and Hetero sapiens getting married. Which name do they take?"

Etymology

From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).

Word Breakdown

Root: Homo sapiens

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does hetero sapiens mean?: Collectively, straight people.
Where does hetero sapiens come from?: From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).

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