Hyphenation of pontificate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word pontificate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

pon-tif-i-cate

Definitions of pontificate:

1.	The government of the Roman Catholic Church
2.	Administer a pontifical office
3.	Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner The new professor always pontificates

Synonyms of pontificate:

noun	papacy, government, authorities, regime
verb	administer, administrate
verb	talk, speak

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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.