Hyphenation of detective

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

de-tec-tive

Definitions of detective:

1.	A police officer who investigates crimes
2.	An investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

Synonyms of detective:

noun	investigator, tec, police detective, policeman, police officer, officer
noun	investigator

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.