English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “flamingos”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for flamingos is flamin-gos, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
flamin-gos
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result flamin-gos The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Wordflamingos
Hyphenationflamin-gos
Break points1
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationfləˈmɪŋɡəʊ
Meaning & usage

What does “flamingos” mean?

flamingos: a tall wading bird with mainly pink or scarlet plumage and long legs and neck. It has a heavy bent bill that is held upside down in the water in order to filter-feed on small organisms.

Headwordflamingo
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationfləˈmɪŋɡəʊ
1
noun

a tall wading bird with mainly pink or scarlet plumage and long legs and neck. It has a heavy bent bill that is held upside down in the water in order to filter-feed on small organisms.

Word breaks

How “flamingos” is split

flamin·gos

For US English, the hyphenation result is flamin-gos. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns the same split.

Quick answers

Questions about “flamingos”

How do you hyphenate “flamingos”?

In the US-English result used here, flamingos is hyphenated as flamin-gos.

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

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “flamingos” mean?

a tall wading bird with mainly pink or scarlet plumage and long legs and neck. It has a heavy bent bill that is held upside down in the water in order to filter-feed on small organisms.

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