contraataques

Spanish, noun

contraataques is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-A-T-A-Q-U-E-S (13 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 71,694th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contraataques is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “plural of contraataque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, contraataqués is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of contraatacar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Líneas fortificadas que oponen los sitiados a los ataques de los sitiadores”.