Hyphenation of ascender

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ascender? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

as-cen-der

Definitions of ascender:

1.	Someone who ascends
2.	A lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters
3.	(printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters

Synonyms of ascender:

noun	mover
noun	letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
noun	line

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.