English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “spun-out”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for spun-out is spun-out, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
spun-out
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result spun--out The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordspun-out
Hyphenationspun-out
Break points1
Part of speechadjective
Pronunciationspʌnˈaʊt
Meaning & usage

What does “spun-out” mean?

spun-out: made to continue for a long time, especially for longer than is necessary.

Headwordspun-out
Part of speechadjective
Pronunciationspʌnˈaʊt
1
adjective

made to continue for a long time, especially for longer than is necessary.

Example: “spun-out news coverage”

Word breaks

How “spun-out” is split

spun·out

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

Quick answers

Questions about “spun-out”

How do you hyphenate “spun-out”?

In the US-English result used here, spun-out is hyphenated as spun-out.

Where can “spun-out” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “spun-out” mean?

made to continue for a long time, especially for longer than is necessary.

Can you use “spun-out” in a sentence?

“spun-out news coverage”