Hyphenation of skates

Are you trying to hyphenate skates? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

skates

Definitions of skates:

1.	Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
2.	Large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head Swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
3.	Move along on skates The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.