English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “unfriendly”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for unfriendly is un-friend-ly, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
un-friend-ly
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result un-friendly The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordunfriendly
Hyphenationun-friend-ly
Break points2
Part of speechadjective
Pronunciationʌnˈfrɛn(d)li
Word breaks

How “unfriendly” is split

un·friend·ly

For US English, the hyphenation result is un-friend-ly. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns un-friendly.

Quick answers

Questions about “unfriendly”

How do you hyphenate “unfriendly”?

In the US-English result used here, unfriendly is hyphenated as un-friend-ly.

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

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “unfriendly” mean?

not friendly.

Can you use “unfriendly” in a sentence?

“she shot him an unfriendly glance”

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