counter-offensive

noun, adjective

counter-offensive is spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-O-F-F-E-N-S-I-V-E: 16 letters. As a noun, counter-offensive means “An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of counter-offensive is counter-offensives.

How many letters and syllables are in counter-offensive?

Letters	16: C-O-U-N-T-E-R-O-F-F-E-N-S-I-V-E
In writing	a phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searched	none 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).

How do you pronounce counter-offensive?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-counter-offensive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with counter-offensive

Also written: counteroffensive (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of counter-offensive

counter-offensives plural
counteroffensive
more counter-offensive comparative
most counter-offensive superlative

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

What does counter-offensive mean?

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

noun

1
An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

adjective

1
Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

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