Hyphenation of hippopotamus

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

hip-popota-mus

Definitions of hippopotamus:

1.	Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

Synonyms of hippopotamus:

noun	hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal

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.