Hyphenation of compelling

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

com-pelling

Definitions of compelling:

1.	Force somebody to do something We compel all students to fill out this form
2.	Necessitate or exact The water shortage compels conservation
3.	Driving or forcing Compelling ambition
4.	Tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument New and compelling evidence

Synonyms of compelling:

adj	powerful
adj	persuasive

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.