Difference between Splutter and Sputter

What is the difference between Splutter and Sputter?

Splutter as a verb is to spray droplets while speaking. while Sputter as a verb is to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

Splutter

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To spray droplets while speaking. To speak hurriedly and confusedly.

Sputter

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ionsTo coat the surface of an object by sputtering

We hope you now know whether to use Splutter or Sputter in your sentence.

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