Hyphenation of chieftains

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

chief-tains

Definitions of chieftains:

1.	The leader of a group of people A captain of industry
2.	The head of a tribe or clan

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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