Hyphenation of phony

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

pho-ny

Definitions of phony:

1.	A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
2.	Fraudulent Having a misleading appearance

Synonyms of phony:

adj	bogus, fake, phoney, bastard, counterfeit, imitative
noun	hypocrite, dissembler, phoney, pretender, deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker

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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.