rift

Other forms of rift

plural

rifts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rift

What does rift mean?

rift means "a gap between cloud masses". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rift?

rift has 1 syllable: rift. In IPA it is /ˈɹɪft/.

What is another word for rift?

Close synonyms include rupture, breach, break, severance, falling out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rift a common word?

rift is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.