Stutter vs. Splutter — What's the Difference?

Talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants

To make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds.

A tendency to stutter while speaking

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

To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.

To utter or express hastily and incoherently.

The act or habit of stuttering.

A spluttering noise.

(ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

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

(intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

(countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.

A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

(figuratively)

(obsolete) One who stutters.

(countable) A noisy commotion.

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

(countable) A disagreement or dispute.

The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

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

One who stutters; a stammerer.

(transitive)

A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds

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

Speak haltingly;

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

(figuratively)

(intransitive)

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

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