Hyphenation of alewives

Are you trying to hyphenate alewives? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

alewives

Definitions of alewives:

1.	Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
2.	Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn Often salted or smoked Sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

Last hyphenations of this language

sprattling barn white-tusked enunciable barmy polyzoon department cigarillos luxemburgian arch-whig barmen flowerwork erethistic barmbrack Epitoniidae preyingly barman dryinid aeronauts

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.