Scrabble & Words with friends points
- return is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- return is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- return is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8
Definition of return
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property (noun)
Examples
- the average return was about 5%
Synonyms
- issue
- payoff
- proceeds
- take
- takings
- yield
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed (noun)
Synonyms
- return key
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability (noun)
Examples
- his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return
Synonyms
- income tax return
- tax return
- go back to a previous state (verb)
Synonyms
- regress
- retrovert
- revert
- turn back
- elect again (verb)
Synonyms
- reelect
- a coming to or returning home (noun)
Examples
- on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party
Synonyms
- homecoming
- happening again (especially at regular intervals) (noun)
Examples
- the return of spring
Synonyms
- recurrence
- be restored (verb)
Examples
- Her old vigor returned
Synonyms
- come back
- give or supply (verb)
Synonyms
- generate
- give
- render
- yield
- pass down (verb)
Synonyms
- deliver
- render
- pay back (verb)
Synonyms
- give back
- refund
- repay
- go back to something earlier (verb)
Synonyms
- come back
- hark back
- recall
- getting something back again (noun)
Synonyms
- regaining
- restitution
- restoration
- bring back to the point of departure (verb)
Synonyms
- bring back
- take back
- the act of someone appearing again (noun)
Synonyms
- reappearance
- answer back (verb)
Synonyms
- come back
- rejoin
- repay
- retort
- riposte
- give back (verb)
Synonyms
- render
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) (noun)
Synonyms
- comeback
- counter
- rejoinder
- replication
- retort
- riposte
- be inherited by (verb)
Examples
- The land returned to the family
Synonyms
- devolve
- fall
- pass
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction (noun)
Synonyms
- coming back
- a reciprocal group action (noun)
Examples
- in return we gave them as good as we got
Synonyms
- getting even
- paying back
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble (noun)
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player (noun)
Examples
- he won the point on a cross-court return
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before (verb)
Examples
- return to your native land
- the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean
- make a return (verb)
Examples
- return a kickback
- return in kind (verb)
Examples
- return a compliment
- return her love
- return to a previous position; in mathematics (verb)
Examples
- The point returned to the interior of the figure
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority (verb)
- the act of going back to a prior location (noun)
Examples
- they set out on their return to the base camp
See definition of return in Merriam Webster