splash
/splæʃ/noun, verb
splash is spelled S-P-L-A-S-H. The wrong spelling people search most is spash: about 280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 47 of all searches for the word. Splash is a noun meaning “The sound made by an object hitting a liquid”. The plural of splash is splashes.
How many letters and syllables are in splash?
| Letters | 6: S-P-L-A-S-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, spash, about 280 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell splash?
Splash is spelled S-P-L-A-S-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for splash in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is splash?
Splash appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce splash?
- /splæʃ/
Splash has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-splash.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of splash
- splashes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- splashing participle, present
- splashed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does splash mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
- 2
A small amount of liquid.
I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
- 3
A small amount (of color).
The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
- 4
A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
- 5
An impact or impression.
The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
- 6
informalA splash screen.
- 7
A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- 8
datedA cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
verb
- 1
To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
sit and splash in the bathtub
- 2
(of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
Water splashed everywhere.
- 3
To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
She splashed water onto her face.
- 4
To hit or expel liquid at.
The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
- 5
To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
- 6
To spend (money).
After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
- 7
To roughly fill with color.
- 8
To launch a ship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Splash in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | plouf , bruit, éclaboussure , asperger, éclabousser , faire du bruit |
| German | Platschen , platschen, plätschern, pritscheln, spritzen |
| Portuguese | chape, tchibum , chapinhar , espalhar |
| Spanish | salpicadura , chacualear , chorrito, chiringuito, poquito, poco |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does splash come from?
Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).