English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “archaeologist”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for archaeologist is ar-chae-ol-o-gist, with 4 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
ar-chae-ol-o-gist
5 segments4 break points
British English pattern result ar-chae-olo-gist The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordarchaeologist
Hyphenationar-chae-ol-o-gist
Break points4
Part of speechnoun
Meaning & usage

What does “archaeologist” mean?

archaeologist: Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

Headwordarchaeologist
Part of speechnoun
1
noun

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

Word breaks

How “archaeologist” is split

ar·chae·ol·o·gist

For US English, the hyphenation result is ar-chae-ol-o-gist. This gives 4 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns ar-chae-olo-gist.

Quick answers

Questions about “archaeologist”

How do you hyphenate “archaeologist”?

In the US-English result used here, archaeologist is hyphenated as ar-chae-ol-o-gist.

Where can “archaeologist” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 4 possible break points.

What does “archaeologist” mean?

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

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