Hyphenation of phylum

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

phy-lum

Definitions of phylum:

1.	(linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related
2.	(biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants Contains classes

Synonyms of phylum:

noun	social group
noun	taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon

Last hyphenations of this language

philanthropy irascible hydrocephaly Laurie abusable listed Armenia area ambition Lutheran religious batsmanship life-preserver co-option syllabify house-proud could courageous communist merchandise

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.