countersuit
noun
countersuit is a noun meaning “A lawsuit filed against a party that has filed a suit against one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-S-U-I-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of countersuit is countersuits.
What does countersuit mean?
noun
- 1
A lawsuit filed against a party that has filed a suit against one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce countersuit?
Countersuit 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 countersuit
- countersuits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is countersuit?
Countersuit appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 countersuit come from?
From counter- + suit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).