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word-break

word-break is the alternative form of word break.

Meaning of word break

Noun

word break (plural word breaks)

  1. (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.
  2. A word boundary, as operationally defined by either linguistics or computing.

Forms of word-break

pluralword-breaks

Questions about word-break

What is word-break the alternative form of?
Word-break is the alternative form of word break.

Words near word-break in the dictionary

  1. word wrapping
  2. word wraps
  3. word-blind
  4. word-blindness
  5. word-bound
  6. word-break
  7. word-breaks
  8. word-deafness
  9. word-final
  10. word-for-word
  11. word-form

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word-break (page history and authors); word break (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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