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cotton

How many syllables in cotton?

  2 syllables

Divide cotton into syllables:   cot-ton
Stressed syllable in cotton:   cot-ton
How to pronounce cotton:   kot-n
How to say cotton:

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Synonyms for cotton


1 syllable
  • cord
  • strand
  • line
  • yarn
2 syllables
  • fiber
    3 syllables
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      What rhymes with cotton

      2 syllables
      • boughten
      • Laughton
      • shotten
      • gotten
      • rotten
      • totten
      3 syllables
      4 syllables
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