Hyphenation of pockets

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

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Definitions of pockets:

1.	A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
2.	An enclosed space The trapped miners found a pocket of air
3.	A supply of money They dipped into the taxpayers' pockets
4.	(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left The ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike
5.	A hollow concave shape made by removing something
6.	A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
7.	A small isolated group of people They were concentrated in pockets inside the city The battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance
8.	(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
9.	An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
10.	Put in one's pocket He pocketed the change
11.	Take unlawfully

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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.