Hyphenation of pinwheel

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

pin-wheel

Definitions of pinwheel:

1.	Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
2.	A wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim He spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'
3.	A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
4.	A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

Synonyms of pinwheel:

noun	Aeonium haworthii, subshrub, suffrutex
noun	catherine wheel, firework, pyrotechnic

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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.