Hyphenation of descendent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word descendent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

de-scen-dent

Definitions of descendent:

1.	A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
2.	Going or coming down
3.	Proceeding by descent from an ancestor Descendent gene

Synonyms of descendent:

adj	descendant, descending
noun	descendant, relative, relation

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.