Hyphenation of commonwealth

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

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Definitions of commonwealth:

1.	The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
2.	A politically organized body of people under a single government The state has elected a new president African nations Students who had come to the nation's capitol The country's largest manufacturer An industrialized land
3.	A world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
4.	A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Synonyms of commonwealth:

noun	state, province
noun	state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic, political unit
noun	world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
noun	democracy, republic, political system, form of government

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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.