Break in friendly relations

The answer

RIFT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIFT answer page.

Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RIFT

Every other clue in this collection answered by RIFT, most used first.

• Falling-out - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Schism - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Fissure - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
• Break in relations - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Split - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Estrangement - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Breach - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Break - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Difference of opinion - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Disagreement - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Crack. - used 9 times, most recently in 1981
• Diplomacy breakdown - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Division - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Fissure; split - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Major falling-out - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Take a break - REST, used 268 times
• ___-friendly - USER, used 189 times
• Break sharply - SNAP, used 119 times
• Break in the action - LULL, used 93 times
• Break suddenly - SNAP, used 77 times
• Friendly nation - ALLY, used 56 times

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