Hyphenation of overlook

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word overlook? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

over-look

Definitions of overlook:

1.	A high place affording a good view
2.	Look past, fail to notice
3.	Be oriented in a certain direction The house looks out on a tennis court The apartment overlooks the Hudson
4.	Leave undone or leave out How could I miss that typo? The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
5.	Look down on The villa dominates the town
6.	Watch over I am overlooking her work

Synonyms of overlook:

noun	topographic point, place, spot
verb	miss, lose
verb	look out on, look out over, look across, lie
verb	neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overleap
verb	dominate, command, overtop, lie
verb	survey

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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.