English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “delicious”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for delicious is de-li-cious, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
de-li-cious
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result de-li-cious The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Worddelicious
Hyphenationde-li-cious
Break points2
Part of speechadjective · noun
Pronunciation/dəˈlɪʃəs/
Meaning & usage

What does “delicious” mean?

delicious: Highly pleasant to the taste.

Headworddelicious
Part of speechadjective · noun
Pronunciation/dəˈlɪʃəs/
1
adjective

Highly pleasant to the taste.

Example: “delicious home-baked brown bread”

2
noun

A red or yellow variety of eating apple with a sweet flavor and a slightly elongated shape, originally cultivated in the US.

Example: “Jonathons, Delicious, or any other sweet variety produce excellent results without the addition of sugar.”

Word breaks

How “delicious” is split

de·li·cious

For US English, the hyphenation result is de-li-cious. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns the same split.

Quick answers

Questions about “delicious”

How do you hyphenate “delicious”?

In the US-English result used here, delicious is hyphenated as de-li-cious.

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

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “delicious” mean?

Highly pleasant to the taste.

Can you use “delicious” in a sentence?

“delicious home-baked brown bread”

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