Spatter vs Splatter - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between spatter and splatter

is that spatter is to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around while splatter is to spatter (something or somebody).

an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

(en verb)

To splash with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

(Alexander Pope)

(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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(wikipedia splatter)

(en noun)

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

(attributive) A genre of gory horror.

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To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.

To cause (something) to splatter.

He splattered paint onto the wall.

To spatter (something or somebody).

* 2012 , Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)

Her wet hands splattered him with suds.