countercoup

1. 1.

   a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat

   Broadercoup d'etat

Other forms of countercoup

plural

countercoups·

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 countercoup

What does countercoup mean?

countercoup means "a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat".

How many syllables are in countercoup?

countercoup has 3 syllables: coun-ter-coup. The stress falls on "coun".

Is countercoup a common word?

countercoup 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.