counterterrorist
adjective, noun
counterterrorist is an adjective meaning “Intended to combat terrorism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does counterterrorist mean?
adjective
- 1
Intended to combat terrorism
noun
- 1
A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce counterterrorist?
Counterterrorist has 5 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 counterterrorist
- counterterrorists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is counterterrorist?
Counterterrorist appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).
Counterterrorist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense intended to combat terrorism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | contreterroriste |
| German | konterterroristisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.