Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

counterspectacle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: coun-ter-spec-ta-cle
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spectacle set up in opposition to another.

Example Sentences

"Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be."

Etymology

From counter- + spectacle.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: counter

Inflected Forms

counterspectacles (plural)

Questions

What does counterspectacle mean?: A spectacle set up in opposition to another.
Where does counterspectacle come from?: From counter- + spectacle.

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