Hyphenation of caretaker

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

care-tak-er

Definitions of caretaker:

1.	A custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person)
2.	An official who performs the duties of an office temporarily He acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected

Synonyms of caretaker:

noun	custodian, keeper, steward
noun	official, functionary

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.