Hyphenation of altercation

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word altercation? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

al-ter-ca-tion

Definitions of altercation:

1.	Noisy quarrel

Synonyms of altercation:

noun	affray, fracas, quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup

Last hyphenations of this language

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