Hyphenation of spurious

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

spu-ri-ous

Definitions of spurious:

1.	Plausible but false A specious claim Spurious inferences
2.	Born out of wedlock The dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring- E.A.Freeman
3.	Intended to deceive A spurious work of art

Synonyms of spurious:

adj	specious, invalid
adj	bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, illegitimate
adj	inauthentic, unauthentic, counterfeit, imitative

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.