Hyphenation of Raffles

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

Raf-fles

Definitions of Raffles:

1.	British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
2.	Dispose of in a lottery We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas

Synonyms of Raffles:

noun	Raffles, Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, administrator, executive
noun	raffle, lottery, drawing

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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.