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say it: HAHY-fuhn
hyphen is a noun and verb meaning "a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text". It is pronounced /ˈhaɪfən/ — HAHY-fuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hyphen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.