Hyphenation of catching

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

catch-ing

Definitions of catching:

1.	(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
2.	The act of detecting something Catching sight of something
3.	Becoming infected Catching cold is sometimes unavoidable The contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic
4.	(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Synonyms of catching:

adj	communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable, infectious
noun	playing
noun	detection, espial, spying, spotting, discovery, find, uncovering
noun	contracting, acquiring, getting

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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.