Hyphenation of essential

How to hyphenate essential

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

essential

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 9
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 9
Hyphens Count: 0

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

Definitions of essential

essential is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
A necessary ingredient.
noun
A fundamental ingredient.

Definition 1 as adjective

adjective
Necessary.
Synonyms: indispensable
adjective
Very important; of high importance.
Synonyms: crucial
adjective
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
adjective
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Example: Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
adjective
Really existing; existent.
adjective
Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
adjective
Idiopathic.

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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.