Hyphenation of profess

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

pro-fess

Definitions of profess:

1.	Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about She professes organic chemistry
2.	Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to The terrorists professed allegiance to their country He professes to be a Communist
3.	Admit (to a wrongdoing) She confessed that she had taken the money
4.	State freely The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades
5.	Receive into a religious order or congregation
6.	Take vows, as in religious order She professed herself as a nun
7.	State insincerely He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber She pretends to be an expert on wine

Synonyms of profess:

verb	claim
verb	declare
verb	concede, confess, admit, acknowledge
verb	declare
verb	accept, admit, take, take on
verb	vow
verb	pretend, claim

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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.