How to pronounce “word break”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (usually) A point in writing where a word is split so that part of it is relegated to the next line, typically at the end of a syllable and marked with a hyphen: an intersyllabic division.
• A word boundary, as operationally defined by either linguistics or computing.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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