English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “madcap”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for madcap is mad-cap, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
mad-cap
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result mad-cap The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Wordmadcap
Hyphenationmad-cap
Break points1
Part of speechadjective · noun
Pronunciationˈmadkap
Word breaks

How “madcap” is split

mad·cap

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

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Questions about “madcap”

How do you hyphenate “madcap”?

In the US-English result used here, madcap is hyphenated as mad-cap.

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

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “madcap” mean?

amusingly eccentric.

Can you use “madcap” in a sentence?

“a surreal, madcap novel”

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