Hyphenation of truant

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

tru-ant

Definitions of truant:

1.	One who is absent from school without permission
2.	Someone who shirks duty
3.	Absent without permission Truant schoolboys The soldier was AWOL for almost a week

Synonyms of truant:

adj	awol, absent
noun	hooky player, absentee
noun	no-show, nonattender, wrongdoer, offender

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.