cotton: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of cotton
noun
- uncountable, usually
A fibrous substance: A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- uncountable, usually
A fibrous substance: Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- uncountable, usually
A plant source: A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- uncountable, usually
A plant source: Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Listed forms: cottons.
Source: Wiktionary — cotton.
adj
- not-comparable
Made of cotton.
Source: Wiktionary — cotton.
verb
- transitive
To provide with cotton.
- transitive
To provide with cotton. To supply with a cotton wick.
- transitive
To provide with cotton. To fill with a wad of cotton.
- transitive
To provide with cotton. To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
Listed forms: cottons, cottoning, cottoned.
Source: Wiktionary — cotton.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cotton.
noun
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- cotton fiber
- cotton wool
noun
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- cotton plant
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cotton in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cotton
C(3) + O(1) + T(1) + T(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of cotton
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from cotton
18 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cotton. Showing up to 24, longest first.