rifte
Portuguese, noun/ˈʁif.tɨ/
rifte is spelled R-I-F-T-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rifte is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “rift (chasm or fissure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “frincha colossal entre placas da crosta da Terra decorrente do deslocamento e afundamento duma em relação à…”.
What does rifte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerift (chasm or fissure)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. frincha colossal entre placas da crosta da Terra decorrente do deslocamento e afundamento duma em relação à outra
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rifte
- riftes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rifte?
- Portugal /ˈʁif.tɨ/
- Portugal /ˈʁi.fɨ.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rifte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rifte in Portuguese?
rifte appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).