Hyphenation of accost

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

ac-cost

Definitions of accost:

1.	Speak to someone
2.	Approach with an offer of sexual favors He was solicited by a prostitute The young man was caught soliciting in the park

Synonyms of accost:

verb	address, come up to, come, come up
verb	hook, solicit, offer

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.