Hyphenation of octopus

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

oc-to-pus

Definitions of octopus:

1.	Tentacles of octopus prepared as food
2.	Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

Synonyms of octopus:

noun	seafood
noun	devilfish, octopod

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.