Hyphenation of exigency

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

ex-i-gency

Definitions of exigency:

1.	A pressing or urgent situation The health-care exigency
2.	A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action He never knew what to do in an emergency

Synonyms of exigency:

noun	crisis
noun	emergency, pinch, crisis

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.