Hyphenation of catastrophes

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word catastrophes? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

cat-a-stro-phes

Definitions of catastrophes:

1.	An event resulting in great loss and misfortune The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity The earthquake was a disaster
2.	A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune Lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system His policies were a disaster
3.	A sudden violent change in the earth's surface

Last hyphenations of this language

Tionontati begirdles phycologist brideship Artemia hydrophile tamerlane transmigrator blue-washed superorganism bevier co-worship Dogs knee-cap REVIEWS peridendritic bacterized unsobriety Brantford

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.