Hyphenation of apostrophe

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

apos-tro-phe

Definitions of apostrophe:

1.	Address to an absent or imaginary person
2.	The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Synonyms of apostrophe:

noun	rhetorical device
noun	punctuation, punctuation mark

Last hyphenations of this language

unclubbable shunting genuflectory protension scupful bakie hems linkboy Gillespie imperfectability defeat contributions Acarodermatitis high-born paleontological Tilghman puckish reputedly Accomplishment

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.