Hyphenation of whelk

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

whelk

Definitions of whelk:

1.	Large marine snail much used as food in Europe
2.	Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
3.	Gather whelk

Synonyms of whelk:

noun	seafood
noun	seasnail
verb	snail

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.