Hidden inside return sit return and turner, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REUNRT, TURNRE or NEURTR and you get the same 6 letters as RETURN: so the words from RETURN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
return and turner tie for the highest Scrabble score from return at 6 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in return: one comes from rearranging its letters, and return itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with return. For points, the strongest plays are return and turner — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in return produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, true, tune, and turn. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including rent, true and tune.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in return. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, et and 6 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in return and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
return is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty-nine senses for return. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
return is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing return unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are return and turner, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from return earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in return produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.