spatter

1. 1.

   dash a liquid upon or against

   “The mother splashed the baby's face with water”

   Synonymssplatterplashsplashsploshswash

   Broaderscatter

   Narrowerpuddleslosh
2. 2.

   rain gently

   “It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick”

   Synonymssprinklespitpatterpitter-patter

   Broaderrain
3. 3.

   spot, splash, or soil

   “The baby spattered the bib with food”

   Synonymsbespatter

   Broaderspot

1. 1.

   the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

   “he heard a spatter of gunfire”

   Synonymsspatteringsplattersplatteringsputterspluttersputtering

   Broadernoise
2. 2.

   the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

   Synonymsspatteringsplashsplashingsplattering

   Broaderpainting

Other forms of spatter

plural

spatters·

past tense

spatterred·

present participle

spatterring·

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 spatter

What does spatter mean?

spatter means "dash a liquid upon or against". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spatter?

spatter has 2 syllables: spat-ter. The stress falls on "spat". In IPA it is /ˈspætɚ/.

What is another word for spatter?

Close synonyms include splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spatter a common word?

spatter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.