Hyphenation of pretenses

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word pretenses? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pre-tens-es

Definitions of pretenses:

1.	The act of giving a false appearance His conformity was only pretending
2.	Pretending with intention to deceive
3.	Imaginative intellectual play
4.	A false or unsupportable quality
5.	An artful or simulated semblance Under the guise of friendship he betrayed them

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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.