Hyphenation of bypass

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

by-pass

Definitions of bypass:

1.	A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
2.	A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
3.	A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
4.	Avoid something unpleasant or laborious You cannot bypass these rules!

Synonyms of bypass:

noun	circumferential, ring road, road, route
noun	shunt
noun	shunt, electrical shunt, conductor
verb	short-circuit, go around, get around, avoid

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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.