Hyphenation of estrogen

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

es-tro-gen

Definitions of estrogen:

1.	A general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics

Synonyms of estrogen:

noun	oestrogen, steroid hormone, steroid, sex hormone

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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.