countercharge

1. 1.

   a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser

   Broaderaccusation
2. 2.

   a retaliatory charge

   Broadercharge

Other forms of countercharge

plural

countercharges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about countercharge

What does countercharge mean?

countercharge means "a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in countercharge?

countercharge has 3 syllables: coun-ter-charge. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊntɚˌtʃɑɹdʒ/.

Is countercharge a common word?

countercharge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with countercharge?

6 words rhyme with countercharge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.