Translation guide
To scatter small drops or particles of a liquid or soft substance, often forcefully or messily.
Describing liquid flying in small drops, often due to impact or movement.
General verb for liquid or small particles scattering or flying around. Intransitive.
Oil spattered everywhere.
Mud spattered and got my clothes dirty.
For liquid splashing or bouncing up, often from a surface. Intransitive.
Water spattered from the puddle.
Oil spattered and hit my hand.
Transitive verb meaning to make something fly or scatter, including splashing liquid.
The car spattered mud.
Transitive, more vivid: to splash and scatter around. Often used for messy splashing.
The dog spattered water everywhere.
Describing the result of spattering: small spots or stains on a surface.
Noun for droplets or splash marks, often used for blood, water, or oil.
There were spatters of blood on the wall.
Spray or splash, often from waves or waterfalls, but also for spattered liquid.
General word for spots or specks, can describe spatter marks.
Specifically for hot oil or sauce spattering during frying or cooking.
飛び散る emphasizes scattering in many directions, while 跳ねる focuses on liquid bouncing upward from a surface. For cooking oil, both are used, but 跳ねる is more common.
Oil spattered and the kitchen got dirty.
Oil spattered and I almost got burned.
波のしぶきが顔にかかった。
Spray from the waves spattered my face.
服に油の斑点ができた。
Oil spatters formed on my clothes.