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Synonyms for plash

Most common

splash splatter spatter swash splosh plap pleach

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

2. Splosh — to hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a…

splosh, plap

Other

pleach

Noun

1. Downpour — A heavy fall of rain; a downpour

cloud burst, downpour, rainstorm

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.

  2. v. 2

    To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.

  3. n. 1

    A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.

Related words

Word family
plashy plasher

Forms

Plural
plashes → downpours, rainstorms, pools, puddles…
Past participle
plashed
e.g. plashed → splashed, spattered, splattered, swashed…

Example sentences

  • splash Splish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
  • splatter He finds joy in splatter painting and the chaos it brings.
  • spatter There was blood spatter everywhere in the room.
  • splosh The juice made a nice splosh as it splashed against the jug.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
plashrising
splashrising
splatterrising
spattersteady
swashfalling
sploshsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
pool1, plap
5 letters
swash
6 letters
splash1, puddle2, splosh, pleach
7 letters
spatter2, plasher
8 letters
splatter2, downpour2
9 letters
rainstorm2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (puddle2 = 2 syllables).