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Synonyms for fracture

  • noun

Most common

breaking rift rupture fissure shift faulting

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Crack

crack, rupture, fissure, rift, breaking, cracking, burst, breach, cleft, opening, rend, rent, crevice

2. Fault

break, fault, faulting, flaw, shift, chasm, chink

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

  2. n. 2

    A break in bone or cartilage.

Related words

Word family
fraction fragment
Phrases
open fracture compound fracture

Forms

Plural
fractures → cracks, ruptures, fissures, rifts…

Choose the right word

or Fracture?

Fracture has a somewhat similar sense.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • breaking The judge found Scopes guilty of breaking the law.
  • rift Sami's drinking caused a rift in his marriage.
  • rupture Becoming rivals in love caused the rupture of friendship.
  • shift Sami's shift starts at the beginning of the night.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
fracturesteady
breakingrising
riftsteady
rupturesteady
fissuresteady
shiftsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
rent1, rift1, flaw1, rend
5 letters
break1, fault1, shift1, crack1, burst1, chasm2, cleft1, chink1
6 letters
breach1
7 letters
opening3, rupture2, fissure2, crevice2
8 letters
breaking2, cracking2, faulting2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (chasm2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
fracture
Español
fractura