Hyphenation of populates

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word populates? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pop-u-lates

Definitions of populates:

1.	Inhabit or live in Be an inhabitant of People lived in Africa millions of years ago The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean Deer are populating the woods
2.	Fill with inhabitants Populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting

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.