cottony

1. 1.

   resembling cotton; as soft as cotton

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Questions about cottony

What does cottony mean?

cottony means "resembling cotton; as soft as cotton".

How many syllables are in cottony?

cottony has 3 syllables and divides as cot-to-ny under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cottony a common word?

cottony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.