Hyphenation of occupant

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

oc-cu-pant

Definitions of occupant:

1.	Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Synonyms of occupant:

noun	resident, occupier, inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller

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.