Hyphenation of cage

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

cage

Definitions of cage:

1.	An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
2.	Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
3.	United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
4.	The net that is the goal in ice hockey
5.	A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
6.	Confine in a cage The animal was caged

Synonyms of cage:

noun	coop, enclosure
noun	constraint, restraint
noun	Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr., composer
noun	net
noun	batting cage, baseball equipment
verb	cage in, confine, detain

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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.