Hyphenation of virulence

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

vir-u-lence

Definitions of virulence:

1.	Extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) The virulence of the plague
2.	Extreme hostility The virulence of the malicious old man

Synonyms of virulence:

noun	virulency, harmfulness, injuriousness
noun	virulency, hostility, ill will

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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.