splutter

1. 1.

   utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

   Synonymssputter

   Broaderutter
2. 2.

   spit up in an explosive manner

   Synonymssputterspit out

   Broaderexpectorate

Other forms of splutter

plural

splutters·

past tense

splutterred·

present participle

splutterring·

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 splutter

What does splutter mean?

splutter means "the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in splutter?

splutter has 2 syllables and divides as splut-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for splutter?

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

splutter 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.