Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

splutter

/ˈsplʌtɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

Syllables: splut-ter
IPA: /ˈsplʌtɚ/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.

Countable

noun

A forceful choking or spitting sound.

Countable

noun

A noisy commotion.

Countable

noun

A disagreement or dispute.

Countable

noun

Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.

Uncountable

verb

To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.

Transitive verb

verb

To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.

Transitive verb

verb

To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"a splutter of water from a pipe"
"[He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed."
"As certain liquors, confined in casks too cramped in their dimensions, will ferment, and fret, and chafe in their imprisonment, so the spiritual essence or soul of Mr. Tappertit would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body, until, with great foam and froth and splutter, it would force a vent, and carry all before it."
"There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a splutter of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up."
"But party carries every thing nowadays, and what a splutter have I heard about the wit of that saying, repeated with admiration about a hundred times in half an hour."
"[M]y ways of out-of-the-wayness were by no means quiet, but perpetually firing up under their feet in little splutters and spitfires of the most appalling heresy; […]"

Etymology

The noun is imitative. The verb is derived from the noun.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsplʌtɚ/
British English: /ˈsplʌtə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

splutters (plural) splutters (present, singular) spluttering (participle, present) spluttered (participle, past) spluttered (past) no-table-tags (table tags) glossary (inflection template) spluttered (first person, past) splutterest (archaic, present) spluttered (past, second person) splutteredst (archaic, past) spluttereth (archaic, present)

Derived Forms

splutterer spluttering splutteringly spluttery

Synonyms

controversy sputter spatter spattering splatter splattering sputtering spit out

Rhymes With

butter utter qatar cutter shutter gutter clutter flutter stutter putter nutter mutter

Questions

How do you pronounce splutter?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsplʌtɚ/.
What does splutter mean?: A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
Where does splutter come from?: The noun is imitative. The verb is derived from the noun.

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