Hyphenation of peculate

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

pec-u-late

Definitions of peculate:

1.	Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family

Synonyms of peculate:

verb	embezzle, defalcate, misappropriate, malversate, steal

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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.