cottonwood

Other forms of cottonwood

plural

cottonwoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cottonwood

What does cottonwood mean?

cottonwood means "any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cottonwood?

cottonwood has 3 syllables: cot-ton-wood. The stress falls on "cot". In IPA it is /ˈkɑtənˌwʊd/.

What is another word for cottonwood?

Close synonyms include white basswood, Tilia heterophylla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cottonwood a common word?

cottonwood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cottonwood?

19 words rhyme with cottonwood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.