Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

omega male

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: omega -male
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A male who is the lowest in a social or group hierarchy; a subordinate male.

Example Sentences

"[…] but he still does not find her feeling for the omega male convincing."
"What might be overlooked in this wolf pack/classroom analogy is that where there is an alpha male (the wolf with all the power), there also is an omega male (the wolf at the bottom of the pack with absolutely no power)."
"Kamots (named in Blackfoot for "freedom") was the alpha male, dominant to all other pack-mates, and Lakota (named ironically with the Sioux word for friend, when he was to have so few) the omega male, subordinate to all males including the cubs as they grew to adulthood."

Etymology

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, while alpha is the first.

Inflected Forms

omega males (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

omegaverse alpha male alpha female beta male gamma male delta male sigma male

Questions

What does omega male mean?: A male who is the lowest in a social or group hierarchy; a subordinate male.
Where does omega male come from?: Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, while alpha is the first.

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