Hyphenation of checkmates

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

check-mates

Definitions of checkmates:

1.	Complete victory
2.	A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
3.	Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves

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.