What does splash mean?
Word: Splash
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Splash means to make water or another liquid fly up and fall in drops, or to make someone wet in this way.
How do you spell splash?
Syllables: splash
Tricky part: Three letters are blended at the start: s, p and l. Children often drop one and write spash, or slash, which is a different word.
Watch out for: spash, splsh
Memory tip: Count three quick sounds before the vowel, s, p, l, like three pebbles hitting a pond one after another.
Splash in a sentence
Example 1: The baby loves to splash in the bath.
Example 2: A bus drove through a puddle and splashed my uniform.
Example 3: We splashed water on our faces to cool down.
Fun Fact
In diving contests, divers try to enter the water with as small a splash as possible, and the judges give them better marks for it.
Practise the CREST Way
Sound Check
Which of the following words rhymes with splash?
a) fish
b) wash
c) squash
d) crash
Show answer
d) crash. Crash has the same vowel sound as splash; wash and squash have the o sound of hot, and fish has a short i.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
splash
a) has
b) pals
c) shall
d) lash
Show answer
c) shall. Shall takes two l's; splash has one.
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
Ducks splash in the pond near our colony every mornig.
a) splash and mornig
b) ducks and colony
c) only colony
d) only mornig
Show answer
d) only mornig. Mornig has lost the n before the g; the rest of the sentence is right.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
hapsls
a) to send drops of water flying about
b) to shout loudly across a field
c) to fold a cloth into a square
d) to rub something until it shines
Show answer
a) to send drops of water flying about. Rearranged, hapsls makes splash, what happens when you jump into a puddle.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The children love to splash about in the ___.
a) swimming pool
b) sandpit
c) school bus
d) reading room
Show answer
a) swimming pool
2. What makes the biggest splash in a pool?
a) a leaf falling on the water
b) a whisper near the water
c) a shadow on the water
d) a big jump into the water
Show answer
d) a big jump into the water
