Hyphenation of illiteracy

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word illiteracy? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

il-lit-er-a-cy

Definitions of illiteracy:

1.	Ignorance resulting from not reading
2.	An inability to read

Synonyms of illiteracy:

noun	ignorance
noun	analphabetism, inability

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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