Hyphenation of shiner

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

shin-er

Definitions of shiner:

1.	A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
2.	Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
3.	Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean Its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
4.	Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

Synonyms of shiner:

noun	black eye, bruise, contusion
noun	object, physical object
noun	common mackerel, Scomber scombrus, mackerel
noun	cyprinid, cyprinid fish

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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.