Hyphenation of sexton

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

sex-ton

Definitions of sexton:

1.	United States poet (1928-1974)
2.	An officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

Synonyms of sexton:

noun	Sexton, Anne Sexton, poet
noun	sacristan, church officer, caretaker

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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.