rift

rift is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: p. p. of Rive. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. p. p. of Rive.
2. noun. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
3. noun. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
4. transitive verb. To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
5. intransitive verb. To burst open; to split.
6. intransitive verb. To belch.
7. noun. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

   "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

   Synonyms: breach, break, rupture, severance

8. noun. a narrow fissure in rock
9. noun. a gap between cloud masses

   "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"

Synonyms

breach, break, rupture, severance

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rift:

frit

Common word forms

rifts, rifted, rifter, rifting, riftless

Words from these letters

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