syllabify

Verb

syllabify (third-person singular simple present syllabifies, present participle syllabifying, simple past and past participle syllabified)

1. To divide a word into syllables; to syllabicate; to syllabize.
   • A method alſo of teaching the learners “to ſyllabify with the counters” is pointed out.1799–1800, P.V. Lenoir, either “French Pronunciation and Reading made Eaſy, or the Logographic-emblematical French Spelling-Book, &c.” (1799, Dulau and Co.) or “The Logographic-emblematical Engliſh...
   • syllabicate 2 syllabication 1
     syllabify 2 syllabification 1
     syllabize 1 syllabization 3
     One first-class verb, two first-class nouns, but neither of those nouns belonging to that verb. It is absurd enough, & any of several ways out would do; that indeed is why none of them is taken. The best thing...1926, Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1st ed., Oxford at the Clarendon Press), page 590, column 2, “syllabize &c.” syllabize &c. A verb & a noun are clearly sometimes...

   Synonyms:

   syllabicate, syllabize