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splish

/splɪʃ/noun, verb

splish is spelled S-P-L-I-S-H: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, splish means “A light splashing sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of splish is splishes.

How many letters and syllables are in splish?

Letters6: S-P-L-I-S-H
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 88,353rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is splish?

Splish appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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 splish?

  • /splɪʃ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-splish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of splish

  • splishes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • splishing participle, present
  • splished participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does splish mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A light splashing sound.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a light splashing sound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does splish come from?

Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splosh.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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