Hyphenation of pinion

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

pin-ion

Definitions of pinion:

1.	A gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
2.	Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
3.	Wing of a bird
4.	Bind the arms of
5.	Cut the wings off (of birds)

Synonyms of pinion:

noun	gear, gear wheel, cogwheel
noun	flight feather, quill, quill feather, feather, plume, plumage
noun	pennon, wing
verb	shackle, restrain, confine, hold
verb	disable, disenable, incapacitate

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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.