Hyphenation of fairlead

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

fair-lead

Definitions of fairlead:

1.	A pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing

Synonyms of fairlead:

noun	pulley, pulley-block, block

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.