countersue
verb
countersue is a verb meaning “To sue a person or entity who is suing one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-S-U-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does countersue mean?
verb
- 1
To sue a person or entity who is suing one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce countersue?
Countersue 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 countersue
- countersues present, singular, he/she/it
- countersuing participle, present
- countersued participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is countersue?
Countersue appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 countersue come from?
From counter- + sue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).