Hyphenation of colons

Are you trying to hyphenate colons? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

colons

Definitions of colons:

1.	The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum It extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
2.	The basic unit of money in El Salvador Equal to 100 centavos
3.	The basic unit of money in Costa Rica Equal to 100 centimos
4.	A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
5.	A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

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.