Hyphenation of detects

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

de-tects

Definitions of detects:

1.	Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water We found traces of lead in the paint

Last hyphenations of this language

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