Hyphenation of tailback

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

tail-back

Definitions of tailback:

1.	(American football) the person who plays tailback
2.	(American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage

Synonyms of tailback:

noun	back
noun	back

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.