Hyphenation of apportionment

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word apportionment ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

ap-por-tion-ment

Definitions of apportionment :

1.	The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning Distribution according to a plan The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state

Synonyms of apportionment :

noun	allotment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation, distribution

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.