Hyphenation of deacon

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

dea-con

Definitions of deacon:

1.	A Protestant layman who assists the minister
2.	A cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches One of the Holy Orders

Synonyms of deacon:

noun	Protestant deacon, church officer
noun	clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth, holy order, order

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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.