Hyphenation of proprietary

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

pro-pri-etary

Definitions of proprietary:

1.	An unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
2.	Protected by trademark or patent or copyright Made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights `Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form

Synonyms of proprietary:

adj	proprietary, branded, copyrighted, patented, trademarked
noun	proprietorship, ownership

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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.