Hyphenation of rifle

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

ri-fle

Definitions of rifle:

1.	A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore He lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired
2.	Steal goods Take as spoils During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
3.	Go through in search of something Search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way Who rifled through my desk drawers?

Synonyms of rifle:

noun	firearm, piece, small-arm
verb	plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack, pillage, foray, take
verb	go, search

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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.