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word breaks

word breaks is the plural 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.

Questions about word breaks

What is word breaks the plural of?
Word breaks is the plural of word break.

Words near word breaks in the dictionary

  1. word balloons
  2. word blindness
  3. word box
  4. word boxes
  5. word break
  6. word breaks
  7. word bubble
  8. word bubbles
  9. word chain
  10. word chains
  11. word class

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word breaks (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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