Hyphenation of embellishment

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

em-bell-ish-ment

Definitions of embellishment:

1.	Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail The mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings
2.	A superfluous ornament
3.	The act of adding extraneous decorations to something

Synonyms of embellishment:

noun	embroidery, expansion, enlargement, elaboration
noun	decoration, ornament, ornamentation
noun	ornamentation, decoration

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.