splat
/splæt/noun, verb
splat is spelled S-P-L-A-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, splat means “The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of splat is splats.
How many letters and syllables are in splat?
| Letters | 5: S-P-L-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is splat?
Splat appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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 splat?
- /splæt/
Splat 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-au-splat.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of splat
- splats plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- splatting participle, present
- splatted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does splat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- 2
The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.
- 3
The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.
- 4
slangThe Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- 5
slangThe asterisk *
- 6
slangThe hash symbol #
- 7
An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
- 8
An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
- 9
A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
verb
- 1
To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
The egg splatted onto the floor.
- 2
To splatter.
She splatted the roach with her shoe.
- 3
To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does splat come from?
From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).