how to pronounce cotton

/ˈkɒt.ən/

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cotton is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of cotton in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to the bone the cotton mills are down …”

meaning of cotton

Cotton is a plant that grows in warm, moist areas.

cotton frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word cotton occurs in english on average 24.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cotton can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cotton can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;