Hyphenation of expectation

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

ex-pec-ta-tion

Definitions of expectation:

1.	Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
2.	Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
3.	The feeling that something is about to happen
4.	The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

Synonyms of expectation:

noun	outlook, prospect, belief
noun	anticipation, hopefulness
noun	feeling
noun	arithmetic mean, first moment, expected value, mean, mean value

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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.