Hyphenation of wick

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

wick

Definitions of wick:

1.	Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action The physician put a wick in the wound to drain it
2.	A loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

Synonyms of wick:

noun	cord
noun	taper, cord

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.