Hyphenation of shortage

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

short-age

Definitions of shortage:

1.	The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required New blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
2.	An acute insufficiency

Synonyms of shortage:

noun	deficit, shortfall, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
noun	dearth, famine, lack, deficiency, want

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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.