Hyphenation of footballs

How to hyphenate footballs

footballs is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, footballs is hyphenated as:

foot-bal-ls

Syllables Count: 3
Characters Count: 9
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 9
Hyphens Count: 2

Hyphenation performed using the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. This result is approximate and has not been verified against authoritative sources.

Definitions of footballs

footballs is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

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(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
Example: Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
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Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Example: Each team scored three goals when they played football.
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American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Example: Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
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Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Example: They played football in the snow.
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(Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football.
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Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
noun
(New South Wales) rugby league.
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Rugby union.
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The ball used in any game called "football".
Example: The player kicked the football.
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Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
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An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
Example: That budget item became a political football.
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The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
Synonyms: "atomic football", "black bag", "black box", "nuclear football"

Words nearby footballs

foot-weary
footage
footages
footback
football
football's
footballer
footballist
(footballs)
footband
footbath
footbaths
footbeat
footblower
footboard
footboards
footboy

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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.