Hyphenation of pestilent

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

pesti-lent

Definitions of pestilent:

1.	Exceedingly harmful
2.	Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease A pestilential malignancy in the air- Jonathan Swift Plaguey fevers

Synonyms of pestilent:

adj	baneful, deadly, pernicious, noxious, harmful
adj	pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey, epidemic

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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.