Hyphenation of detaining

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

de-tain-ing

Last hyphenations of this language

discontinues Associations Bathurst pollenation Odlo deglutitious Scarborough prerequiring carone sickest mediating blue-cross unscrupulosity sordidnesses bone-wort beckon authorizing Petrograd tarso-metatarsus

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.