Hyphenation of “protectiveness”
The standard US-English hyphenation shown for protectiveness is pro-tec-tive-ness, with 3 possible break points in this result.
US English hyphenation
pro-tec-tive-ness
4 segments3 break points
British English pattern result
pro-tect-ive-ness
The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
What does “protectiveness” mean?
How “protectiveness” is split
pro·tec·tive·ness
For US English, the hyphenation result is pro-tec-tive-ness. This gives 3 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns pro-tect-ive-ness.
Questions about “protectiveness”
How do you hyphenate “protectiveness”?
In the US-English result used here, protectiveness is hyphenated as pro-tec-tive-ness.
Where can “protectiveness” break at the end of a line?
The returned US pattern contains 3 possible break points.