Hyphenation of police

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

po-lice

Definitions of police:

1.	The force of policemen and officers The law came looking for him
2.	Maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

Synonyms of police:

noun	police force, constabulary, law, force, personnel, law enforcement agency
verb	patrol, guard

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.