Hyphenation of penalize

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

pe-nal-ize

Definitions of penalize:

1.	Impose a penalty on Inflict punishment on The students were penalized for showing up late for class We had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again

Synonyms of penalize:

verb	punish, penalise

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.