Hyphenation of contestant

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

con-tes-tant

Definitions of contestant:

1.	A person who participates in competitions
2.	A person who dissents from some established policy

Synonyms of contestant:

noun	person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
noun	dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

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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.