reft
/ɹɛft/noun, verb
reft is a noun meaning “A chink; a rift” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-T, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reft is refts.
What does reft mean?
noun
- 1
A chink; a rift.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of reave
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reft?
- /ɹɛft/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-reft.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reft
- refts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reft?
Reft appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).