Hyphenation of pretensions

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

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Definitions of pretensions:

1.	A false or unsupportable quality
2.	The advancing of a claim His pretension to the crown The town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort
3.	The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

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.