Hyphenation of encounters

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

en-coun-ters

Definitions of encounters:

1.	A minor short-term fight
2.	A casual or unexpected convergence He still remembers their meeting in Paris There was a brief encounter in the hallway
3.	A casual meeting with a person or thing
4.	A hostile disagreement face-to-face
5.	Come together I'll probably see you at the meeting How nice to see you again!
6.	Come upon, as if by accident Meet with We find this idea in Plato I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
7.	Be beset by The project ran into numerous financial difficulties
8.	Experience as a reaction My proposal met with much opposition
9.	Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle Princeton plays Yale this weekend Charlie likes to play Mary

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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.