guncotton
noun
guncotton is a noun meaning “nitrocellulose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-N-C-O-T-T-O-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of guncotton is guncottons.
What does guncotton mean?
noun
- 1
nitrocellulose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce guncotton?
Guncotton has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of guncotton
- guncottons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is guncotton?
Guncotton appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does guncotton come from?
From gun + cotton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).