Hyphenation of smocking

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

smock-ing

Definitions of smocking:

1.	Embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches

Synonyms of smocking:

noun	embroidery, fancywork

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.