futon

1. 1.

   mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame

   Broadermattress

   Japan

Other forms of futon

plural

futons·

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 futon

What does futon mean?

futon means "mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame".

How many syllables are in futon?

futon has 2 syllables: fu-ton. The stress falls on "fu". In IPA it is /ˈfutɑn/.

Is futon a common word?

futon 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.