English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “beautification”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for beautification is beau-ti-fi-ca-tion, with 4 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
beau-ti-fi-ca-tion
5 segments4 break points
British English pattern result beau-ti-fic-a-tion The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordbeautification
Hyphenationbeau-ti-fi-ca-tion
Break points4
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationbjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
Meaning & usage

What does “beautification” mean?

beautification: the action or process of improving the appearance of a person or place.

Headwordbeautification
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationbjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
1
noun

the action or process of improving the appearance of a person or place.

Example: “the city commissioned the beautification of the tunnel with work by five artists”

Word breaks

How “beautification” is split

beau·ti·fi·ca·tion

For US English, the hyphenation result is beau-ti-fi-ca-tion. This gives 4 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns beau-ti-fic-a-tion.

Quick answers

Questions about “beautification”

How do you hyphenate “beautification”?

In the US-English result used here, beautification is hyphenated as beau-ti-fi-ca-tion.

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

The returned US pattern contains 4 possible break points.

What does “beautification” mean?

the action or process of improving the appearance of a person or place.

Can you use “beautification” in a sentence?

“the city commissioned the beautification of the tunnel with work by five artists”

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