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cottonwood

How many syllables in cottonwood?

  3 syllables

Divide cottonwood into syllables:   cot-ton-wood
Primary syllable stress:   cot-ton-wood
Secondary syllable stress:   cot-ton-wood
How to pronounce cottonwood:   kot-n-wood
How to say cottonwood:

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