Hyphenation of female

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

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Definitions of female:

1.	An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
2.	A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
3.	Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop A female heir Female holly trees bear the berries
4.	Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman Female sensitiveness Female suffrage
5.	For or pertaining to or composed of women or girls The female lead in the play A female chorus

Synonyms of female:

adj	female, egg-producing, young-bearing, pistillate, feminine
adj	distaff, feminine
adj	feminine
noun	animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
noun	female person, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

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.