syllabification

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The division of a word into syllables.

   “Our author has eſtabliſhed clear practicable rules for articulation, and conſequently for facilitating to foreigners the pronouncing and ſyllabification of the Engliſh language; and that upon principles which are in common to all languages.”

   “Syllábify is a back-formation from syllabification, which in turn seems to be coined directly on the basis of Latin syllabificare.”