Hyphenation of incumbent

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

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Definitions of incumbent:

1.	The official who holds an office
2.	Lying or leaning on something else An incumbent geological formation
3.	Necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility Morally binding It is incumbent on them to pay their own debts
4.	Currently holding an office The incumbent governor

Synonyms of incumbent:

adj	superjacent
adj	current
noun	officeholder, official, functionary

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.