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cottonseed

How many syllables in cottonseed?

  3 syllables

Divide cottonseed into syllables:   cot-ton-seed
Primary syllable stress:   cot-ton-seed
Secondary syllable stress:   cot-ton-seed
How to pronounce cottonseed:   kot-n-seed
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