Hyphenation of des

Are you trying to hyphenate des? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

des

Definitions of des:

1.	A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
2.	Synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen Formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy

Synonyms of des:

noun	diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol, DES, estrogen, oestrogen
noun	diethylstilbesterol, DES, stilbesterol, nonsteroid, nonsteroidal
noun	Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE, American state

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.