Fissure; split

The answer

RIFT

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

Used 7 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 1 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
• Break in friendly relations - used 20 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
• 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.

• Split - RIVE, used 98 times
• Split - REND, used 72 times
• Split apart - REND, used 43 times
• Easily split mineral - MICA, used 26 times
• Went lickety-split - TORE, used 22 times
• Went lickety-split - SPED, used 21 times

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