Hyphenation of papaya

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

pa-paya

Definitions of papaya:

1.	Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
2.	Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

Synonyms of papaya:

noun	papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya, fruit tree
noun	edible fruit

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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.