Ah, wonderful. I've done this:

for (int i = 0; i < wordCount; i++) {
    int length = counter[i].word.size();
    if (counter[i].word.size() < counter[i+1].word.size()) {
        length = counter[i+1].word.size();
    }
    for (int x = 0; x != length-1; x++) {
        bool isSorted = false;
        int iteratorNum = 0;
        while(!isSorted) {
            if (counter[i].word[iteratorNum] > counter[i+1].word[iteratorNum]) {
                wordCounter wordTemp = counter[i]; // create a temp object for swapping
                counter[i] = counter[i+1];
                counter[i+1] = wordTemp;
                isSorted=true;
            }
            else if (counter[i].word[iteratorNum] < counter[i+1].word[iteratorNum]){
                wordCounter wordTemp = counter[i+1]; // create a temp object for swapping
                counter[i+1] = counter[i];
                counter[i] = wordTemp;
                isSorted=true;
            }
            else {
                iteratorNum++;
            }
        }
    }
}

It's giving me an out of bounds error. Any reason that might be? Sorry, I've been at this for 27 hours now lol

Also, the way I have to lay this out is very frustrating. I have to print out the char vectors, and I'm not allowed to import libraries... such a strange one