Splutter vs. Splatter — What's the Difference?

To make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds.

To spatter (a surface or object), especially to soil with splashes of liquid.

To speak hastily and incoherently, as when confused or angry.

To cause (a liquid) to fall on a surface or object.

To utter or express hastily and incoherently.

To spatter, especially to fall or strike something so as to cause splashes.

A spluttering noise.

A splash of liquid.

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

Characterized by gory violence

(countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

(figuratively)

A genre of gory horror.

(countable) A noisy commotion.

Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

(countable) A disagreement or dispute.

(intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

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

(transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.

(transitive)

(transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).

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

To spatter; to splash.

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

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;

(figuratively)

A small quantity of something moist or soft;

(intransitive)

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container;

Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.

Dash a liquid upon or against;

Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.

To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.

Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).

(figuratively)

A minced oath expressing anger or wonder, usually attributed to Welsh people: 'sblood.

To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.

A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;

An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)

Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

Spit up in an explosive manner