Hyphenation of extortionist

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word extortionist? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

ex-tor-tion-ist

Definitions of extortionist:

1.	A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

Synonyms of extortionist:

noun	blackmailer, extortioner, criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor

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