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cottony

How many syllables in cottony?

  3 syllables

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

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What rhymes with cottony

3 syllables
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