English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “polygonal”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for polygonal is polyg-o-nal, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
polyg-o-nal
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result poly-gon-al The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordpolygonal
Hyphenationpolyg-o-nal
Break points2
Pronunciation/pəˈlɪɡ(ə)nl/
Meaning & usage

What does “polygonal” mean?

Headwordpolygonal
Pronunciation/pəˈlɪɡ(ə)nl/
Word breaks

How “polygonal” is split

polyg·o·nal

For US English, the hyphenation result is polyg-o-nal. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns poly-gon-al.

Quick answers

Questions about “polygonal”

How do you hyphenate “polygonal”?

In the US-English result used here, polygonal is hyphenated as polyg-o-nal.

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

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

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