spattering

Other forms of spattering

plural

spatterings·

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 spattering

What does spattering mean?

spattering means "the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spattering?

spattering has 3 syllables: spat-te-ring. The stress falls on "spat". In IPA it is /ˈspætɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for spattering?

Close synonyms include spatter, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter. 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 spattering a common word?

spattering 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.