English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “paintball”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for paintball is paint-ball, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
paint-ball
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result paint-ball The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Wordpaintball
Hyphenationpaint-ball
Break points1
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationˈpeɪntbɔːl
Meaning & usage

What does “paintball” mean?

paintball: a game in which participants simulate military combat using airguns to shoot capsules of paint at each other.

Headwordpaintball
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationˈpeɪntbɔːl
1
noun

a game in which participants simulate military combat using airguns to shoot capsules of paint at each other.

Example: “a paintball gun”

Word breaks

How “paintball” is split

paint·ball

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

Quick answers

Questions about “paintball”

How do you hyphenate “paintball”?

In the US-English result used here, paintball is hyphenated as paint-ball.

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

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “paintball” mean?

a game in which participants simulate military combat using airguns to shoot capsules of paint at each other.

Can you use “paintball” in a sentence?

“a paintball gun”

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