Hyphenation of cracker

How to hyphenate cracker

Because it is a word with a single syllable, cracker is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

cracker

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 7
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 7
Hyphens Count: 0

Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: cracker

Definitions of cracker

cracker is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
Synonyms: biscuit
noun
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
Synonyms: popper, snapper
noun
A firecracker.
noun
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
noun
A Christmas cracker.
noun
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
noun
A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Example: She's an absolute cracker!
noun
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
noun
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Synonyms: "black hat", "black-hat hacker", hacker
noun
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
noun
(racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
Synonyms: "corn-cracker", honky, peckerwood, redneck, "trailer nigger", "trailer trash", "white trash", whitey, wonderbread
noun
(Florida) A police officer.
noun
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
noun
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

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What is hyphenation

Hyphenation is the process of splitting words into syllables and inserting hyphens between them to facilitate the reading of a text. It is also used to divide words when the word cannot fit on a line.

This technique is particularly helpful in fully justified texts, where it aids in creating a uniform edge along both sides of a paragraph. Hyphenation rules vary among languages and even among different publications within the same language. It's a critical component in typesetting, significantly influencing the aesthetics and readability of printed and digital media. For instance, in compound adjectives like 'long-term solution', hyphens clarify relationships between words, preventing misinterpretation. Moreover, hyphenation can alter meanings: 'recreation' differs from 're-creation'.

With the advent of digital text, hyphenation algorithms have become more sophisticated, though still imperfect, sometimes requiring manual adjustment to ensure accuracy and coherence in text layout. Understanding and correctly applying hyphenation rules is therefore not only a matter of linguistic accuracy but also a key aspect of effective visual communication.