Hyphenation of inheritance

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word inheritance? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

in-her-i-tance

Definitions of inheritance:

1.	Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
2.	That which is inherited A title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
3.	(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
4.	Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors My only inheritance was my mother's blessing The world's heritage of knowledge

Synonyms of inheritance:

noun	heritage, acquisition
noun	heritage, transferred property, transferred possession
noun	hereditary pattern, heredity, genetic endowment
noun	heritage, attribute

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.