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counterprotest

noun, verb

counterprotest is spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-P-R-O-T-E-S-T: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, counterprotest means “A protest held in opposition to another protest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of counterprotest is counterprotests.

How many letters and syllables are in counterprotest?

Letters14: C-O-U-N-T-E-R-P-R-O-T-E-S-T
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
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).

How common is counterprotest?

Counterprotest appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

Forms of counterprotest

  • counterprotests plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • counterprotesting participle, present
  • counterprotested participle, past

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

What does counterprotest mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A protest held in opposition to another protest.

verb

  1. 1

    To protest in opposition to another protest.

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

Where does counterprotest come from?

From counter- + protest.

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

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