English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “psychometric”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for psychometric is psy-cho-me-t-ric, with 4 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
psy-cho-me-t-ric
5 segments4 break points
British English pattern result psy-cho-met-ric The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordpsychometric
Hyphenationpsy-cho-me-t-ric
Break points4
Part of speechadjective
Pronunciation/ˌsaɪkəˈmɛtrɪk/
Meaning & usage

What does “psychometric” mean?

psychometric: Relating to or deriving from psychometry or psychometrics.

Headwordpsychometric
Part of speechadjective
Pronunciation/ˌsaɪkəˈmɛtrɪk/
1
adjective

Relating to or deriving from psychometry or psychometrics.

Example: “the company uses psychometric tests as a backup to the job interview”

Word breaks

How “psychometric” is split

psy·cho·me·t·ric

For US English, the hyphenation result is psy-cho-me-t-ric. This gives 4 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns psy-cho-met-ric.

Quick answers

Questions about “psychometric”

How do you hyphenate “psychometric”?

In the US-English result used here, psychometric is hyphenated as psy-cho-me-t-ric.

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

The returned US pattern contains 4 possible break points.

What does “psychometric” mean?

Relating to or deriving from psychometry or psychometrics.

Can you use “psychometric” in a sentence?

“the company uses psychometric tests as a backup to the job interview”

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