Hyphenation of detainee

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word detainee? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

de-tainee

Definitions of detainee:

1.	Some held in custody

Synonyms of detainee:

noun	political detainee, prisoner, captive

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.