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cotton-mouth

noun

cotton-mouth is spelled C-O-T-T-O-N-M-O-U-T-H: 11 letters. As a noun, cotton-mouth means “Alternative form of cottonmouth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cotton-mouth is cotton-mouths.

How many letters and syllables are in cotton-mouth?

Letters11: C-O-T-T-O-N-M-O-U-T-H
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with cotton-mouth

Also written: cottonmouth (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of cotton-mouth

  • cotton-mouths plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cotton-mouth mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of cottonmouth.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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