Hyphenation of substitutes

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

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Definitions of substitutes:

1.	A person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
2.	An athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
3.	Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) The star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes We need extra employees for summer fill-ins
4.	Put in the place of another Switch seemingly equivalent items The con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
5.	Be a substitute The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet
6.	Act as a substitute She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold
7.	Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team A utility infielder
8.	Serving or used in place of another An alternative plan
9.	Artificial and inferior Ersatz coffee Substitute coffee

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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.