Hyphenation of excerpt

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

ex-cerpt

Definitions of excerpt:

1.	A passage selected from a larger work He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
2.	Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Synonyms of excerpt:

noun	extract, selection, passage
verb	extract, take out, choose, take, select, pick out

Last hyphenations of this language

Note ultracondenser eugenides chickenweed prudish collegium acmesthesia cellae anticipator carinate wheelchair adoperate cheke sporification coenacts chamberlainship under-covert sulphide unvagrantly

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.