Hyphenation of buffalo

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

buf-fa-lo

Definitions of buffalo:

1.	Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
2.	A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
3.	Meat from an American bison
4.	Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo Cape buffalo
5.	Intimidate or overawe

Synonyms of buffalo:

noun	American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison, bison
noun	Buffalo, city, metropolis, urban center
noun	game
noun	Old World buffalo, bovid
verb	overawe, cow

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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.