Hyphenation of dependents

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

de-pen-dents

Definitions of dependents:

1.	A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
2.	Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed Dependent children Dependent on moisture
3.	Contingent on something else
4.	(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence
5.	Held from above A pendant bunch of grapes
6.	Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others Subject peoples A dependent prince
7.	Addicted to a drug

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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.