guncotton

Other forms of guncotton

plural

guncottons·

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 guncotton

What does guncotton mean?

guncotton means "a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives".

How many syllables are in guncotton?

guncotton has 3 syllables: gun-cot-ton. The stress falls on "gun". In IPA it is /ˈɡʌnˈkɑtən/.

What is another word for guncotton?

Close synonyms include cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton. 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 guncotton a common word?

guncotton 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.

What rhymes with guncotton?

1 word rhymes with guncotton. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.