rift

\ʁift\

/\ʁift\/ noun

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The verdict

“rift” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,227
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fosse d’effondrement de la lithosphère continentale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rift · rift · French

rift · rank #31,227 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,227
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH richer

Nearest frequency peer: richer (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rift »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rift » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rift vs RT
0% similar
rift vs rio
50% similar
rift vs riz
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rift
PropertyValue
Headwordrift
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁift\
Letters4
Frequency rank#31,227
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rift »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).riftse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « richer » (#31,226), « Rivoli » (#31,228), « revêtements » (#31,225). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rift » est au #31,227. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around rift (IPA \ʁift\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,227 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fosse d’effondrement de la lithosphère continentale.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rift, with forms such as "irft", "rifft", and "riftt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "rio", "riz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rift, spelled R-I-F-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fosse d’effondrement de la lithosphère continentale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rift appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La vallée du grand rift est un élément géologique majeur, qui s’étend du sud de la mer Rouge (au nord) au Zambèze (au sud) sur plus de 9 500 km de longueur.
  2. Le coin de brousse qu’ils avaient défriché pour servir d’emplacement à la chapelle donnait sur la vallée du Rift immense et sublime qui, à deux mille mètres plus bas, déployait ses vagues immobiles dont le flux commençait au cœur de la noire Afrique pour ne s’arrêter qu’aux sables du Sinaï.

This word in other languages

rift(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irft
  • rifft
  • riftt
  • ritf
  • rrift

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rift - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

irft2rifft1riftt1ritf2rrift1
Edit distance from "rift"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rift"?
"rift" is spelled R-I-F-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁift\.
What does "rift" mean?
As a noun, "rift" means: Fosse d’effondrement de la lithosphère continentale.
What words are commonly confused with "rift"?
"rift" is commonly confused with "RT", "rio", "riz". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rift"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rift" is \ʁift\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rift" come from?
"rift" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rift", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sana#31,252sign#31,257préf#31,195sofa#31,263

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

tail5 variantsnour5 variantsmouse5 variantskiri5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list