cotton on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”"
- "In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love."