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sickness

Learn how to correctly hyphenate "sickness" with detailed syllable breakdown and pronunciation guide.

2 syllables
8 characters
English (US)
2syllables

sickness

Hyphenation via the Knuth-Liang algorithm — result not verified against authoritative sources.

sickness is a polysyllabic word with 2 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, sickness is hyphenated as:

Definitions ofsickness

1noun
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  • The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

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