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say it: splat
splat is a verb and noun meaning "give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact". It is pronounced /ˈsplæt/ — splat. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.