contrademanda
Spanish, noun
contrademanda is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-D-E-M-A-N-D-A (13 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 116,020th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrademanda is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “counterclaim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of contrademandar. With an accent, contrademandá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of contrademandar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En un proceso, acción judicial iniciada por el demandado frente al demandante, para que se sustancie dentro…”.
What does contrademanda mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecounterclaim
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of contrademandar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. En un proceso, acción judicial iniciada por el demandado frente al demandante, para que se sustancie dentro del mismo proceso y se decida en la misma sentencia que debe resolver la demanda inicial.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of contrademanda
- contrademandas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is contrademanda in Spanish?
contrademanda appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).