Counter in a debate
The crossword clue "Counter in a debate" is answered by REBUT, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REBUT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REBUT answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for REBUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by REBUT, most used first.
- Contradict - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
- Disprove - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Argue against - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Counter - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Counter an argument - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Counter, as an argument - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Show to be false - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Confute - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Explain away - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Try to disprove - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Debate - ARGUE, used 94 times
- Debate topic - ISSUE, used 81 times
- Kitchen counter? - TIMER, used 21 times
- Have a debate - ARGUE, used 14 times
- Debate issue - TOPIC, used 12 times
- Matter of debate - ISSUE, used 12 times
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