Hyphenation of confederacy

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word confederacy? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

con-fed-er-a-cy

Definitions of confederacy:

1.	The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
2.	A union of political organizations
3.	A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
4.	A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

Synonyms of confederacy:

noun	Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
noun	confederation, federation, union
noun	conspiracy, set, circle, band, lot
noun	conspiracy, agreement, understanding

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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.